181: Inside the 501st Legion: The Bad Guys Doing Good at runDisney

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
3 am again.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Why did I ever think this was a good idea?
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
Hi, my name is Robert .
I just ran the Disney World 5Kand you're listening to the Rise
and Run podcast.

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Oh, hey, friends, welcome toepisode 181 of the Rise and Run
podcast.
I'm Bob.

(01:02):
I'm here this week with Jack.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
Hiya.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
With Alicia Hello.
With John hey, how you doing.
With Lexi, hello.
And with Greg, hey, hey.
Hey, hiya gang, good to see you.
This week we talk with folksfrom the 501st.
If you're not sure who the501st is, okay, that's good.

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That was perfect.
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But, friends, I spend a lot oftime and I'm glad to do it.
I enjoy it working on the racereport spotlight Every now and
then, as exhaustive as my searchis, I'll be on our Facebook
group page on Wednesday and I'llsee.

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Oh look, somebody ran a racelast weekend and I never saw
this post.
Never saw it.
Our buddy, shelby Allison, wasthat person last week and I've
got to talk about this onebecause she ran the Little Rock
Arkansas half marathon.
Well, I think.
Well, she ran the 10K and thehalf marathon and she PR'd in

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both of them, so I don't want tooverlook that.
Plus, she is working with hernewly established and I think
she had a hand in establishingthis the Fun Arkansas Racing
Team.
That's right, sa runs for fart,but they did that on purpose.

(06:51):
Oh, nice job, my friend.
I'm sorry I missed it, but I'mglad we got to make it up for
you.
Let's take a look at thetraining calendar.
Spring time surprise, threeweeks away.
Oh, I'm getting excited.
This is training week 15.
Your assignment for thisweekend is four miles, including

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a magic mile.
Anybody else have mixedemotions about springtime
surprise being so close at hand?
I'm excited.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
No, you're, you're.
No, you're absolutely right.
It's a fabulous weekend, but italso means we're not going to
see friends for a really longtime.
That's it, yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
Yeah, that's it.
I'm also still waiting to hearabout what Brooks has to New
Balance.
Brooks, it's Brooks it used tobe New Balance.
I do that all the time.
It used to be New Balance.
I do that all the time.
It used to be New Balance.
And now it's Brooks.
Waiting to see what happenswith Brooks, with the sportswear
, and I would have thought we'dhave heard something about the

(07:54):
shoes by now, but we haven't.
It's got to be the shoes Got tobe the shoes.
That's not the wrong franchise,though, john.

Speaker 9 (08:01):
Oh sorry.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
Mars Blackman Mars, John.
Oh, sorry, that's yeah, that'snot Mars Blackman Mars.
Yeah, All right.
So all that's on the trainingcalendar right now.
Kids Training updates Anybody?

Speaker 9 (08:16):
I can say that I ran my first run since the marathon
weekend and it went pretty well.
I was Good.
I said, let me get out thereand at least try to get three.
I said, okay, I did 4.2.
So I was happy with it.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
Oh wow, Look at you being overachiever.
You're going out for three.
It's at 4.2.

Speaker 9 (08:35):
Well, I got to the point where I felt okay, well,
the first five minutes I'm likewhy am I doing this?
You know how that goes.

Speaker 8 (08:41):
Oh yeah, that's always first yeah.

Speaker 9 (08:44):
Then I'm like, okay, actually I feel okay, I can do
another, I can extend this loopout of half and get back to my
house about about four.
So I did it.
I I probably could have wentlonger, but this was a good.
I didn't want to push myselftoo far, but it was.
It was well.
I.
I have been training other waysbesides running, but I think

(09:06):
the running is going to get my Iguess my cardiovascular up a
little better than what I.
It should have been Okay, good.

Speaker 7 (09:15):
I have been dealing with not really injuries, but a
lot of little things that keephappening.
I had a problem with my ankleand now my shoulder has tension
in it, but I've been going forwalks, fast walks, with my dog,
yogi.
Today we did four miles and weactually got negative splits on
each mile, which I was prettyproud of for us, and so I'm just

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doing what I can at the moment.
Hopefully I'll get back intorunning again soon, but at least
I'm able to move my body and,um, it's something.
Hopefully I'll be ready forspringtime.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah, is that a PR for Yogi?

Speaker 7 (09:54):
Uh, no, he actually has done a 10 K before.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 7 (09:57):
He's a little dog, but I told him today cause we
went for two miles yesterday.
I said it's a long walk.
Are you sure you want to go?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I want to go.
And we got home and he has beensleeping ever since, but he had
a great time.
He loves it.

Speaker 9 (10:12):
Good, that's good.
You know, Jeff keeps sayingwalk the miles.
If you can walk the miles asyou can, Yep, you know what it
does help, but the motion is alittle bit different.
That's the only thing.
But it does help.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
It is yep.

Speaker 7 (10:29):
Yeah, it is, but Sometime on my feet is better
than nothing.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
Yes, we'll go into that in depth.
Maybe when we get into thesummertime, when we're not
talking about races coming upand we're looking for something
to talk about, that's always agood topic.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Training for me this past week went really well.
I had the uh pen ultimatesimulation weekend so I did the
the one, four and ten andeverything went really really
well.
You know, again, it's it'sthose that time by yourself.
Sometimes it really gets to you.
But you know, you just got towork on those mental exercises
to keep yourself entertained, ormusic or podcast, or you know,

(11:06):
one of my favorite things Iremember Brittany Charbonneau
told us years ago is every milepick a different color and try
to find something out on yourtrail or whatnot.
So lots of different exercisesto do there.
I will say I talked the otherweek about wearing a weighted
vest and I don't know, eithersmartly or foolishly, decided to

(11:26):
wear the weighted vest for thefour mile uh walk and let me
tell you that is quite humbling.
So when it came time to do the10 miles the next day, shoulders
were a little sore, but I knowin the end it will all uh
benefit in helping preventosteoporosis and everything like
that.
And I was very happy with my.
I was very consistent in my 10miles.

(11:48):
All my splits were within 10 to15 seconds of one another.
So it really goes to show whatRun Walk can do for you.
So yeah, I'm real excited toget down to Orlando here in a
couple of weeks.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
Hey gang who used the Holler Hype app this weekend?
I did yeah, yeah, it was a verypleasant experience here in a
couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Hey gang who used the holler hype app this weekend?
I did yeah.
Yeah, it was.
It was a very pleasantexperience.
I think over the course of my10 miles I got 12 hypes oh nice
which was, uh, which was reallynice, and you know it worked
exactly as advertised.
Um, you know, as emily said inthe interview, uh, last week,

(12:27):
you know so, the whole, thewhole time I was running I was
listening to spotify and it, youknow, whenever a hype came in,
it would, you know, graduallydip the music down a little bit
enough that you could stillclearly hear what was being said
.
And you know, a lot of it wasextremely motivating, and I

(12:49):
absolutely loved hearing from alot of my friends.
I got a hey how you doing?
From John, which is nice, andyou know Alicia sent me one as
well too, I will say, though,from the person who is doing the
hyping.
And this is just for me.
I just want to say this as ablanket statement in general,

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because we're not pulling outour phones to look and see who's
sending the hype.
It might be a really good ideato mention your name when you're
hyping someone, in the eventthat that person doesn't know
who you are.
Or maybe you know who they arebut you don't recognize their
voice, or something like that.
Like you know, the first one Igot was from our buddy, rob, and
you know he was like hey, greg,you know, this is rob, I'm.
You know, I'm down floridawalking my dogs right now.
I know you're doing great.
So, even though I've met robbefore, you know, once or once
or twice, I was able to makethat, you know, that vocal

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connection and everything likethat, and that and that made the
experience a lot better for me.
So some people did that, othersdidn't.
Regardless if you did or didnot, I really appreciate all the
hypes.
I loved sending them out.
I made sure Bobby willappreciate this one.
Our buddy Kay was out on a12-mile run this past weekend so
I hyped her by singing theEagles fight song and I think

(14:10):
she really, really enjoyed that.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
I'll bet you did, I bet you did.
You probably really enjoyed it.

Speaker 5 (14:17):
Does it scare you when it goes off?
Because I know for vacationraces.
They had something very similarduring my 50-miler and I felt
like I was jumping out of myskin because I didn't.
It just popped out of nowhere.

Speaker 9 (14:30):
It could have been that, because I know she said
they do have some.
Emily did say there's someaffiliations at bigger races.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
So you know.
But Jack, to answer yourquestion, no, it didn't scare me
at all.
It was usually the way youcould tell is there was maybe
about like a second or two whereyou could hear that
transitional period of yourmusic dipping down and then
hearing the message.
So it didn't catch you offguard like that.
So no, I wouldn't say it scaredme by any means that makes a

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difference, because I didn'thave any music going on so all
of a sudden it would be puresilence out in the woods, and
then no, I will say the onething that holler hype really
reminded me of and grant, I havenot used this for years, but
when nike had their running app,you could send a cheer.

(15:20):
So it wasn't like an audiblemessage, but it was just like a
clap or like a yeah, exactly so.
So it reminded me a lot of thatproduct from years ago, but it
was just.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
It was great to have the personalized message
attached to it I know what I'mdoing now, and next time I get
the word that jack's out, I'mgonna sit back here.

Speaker 5 (15:40):
Hey, jack, you know you would.
Oh god, I should get the app.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
I'm curious I'll tell you what I.
I wanted to use it.
This weekend I had a race in uhst petersburg and I took off at
I don't know 5, 45 in themorning, had all my stuff laid
out, realized I didn't bring myheadset with me, because I
usually don't take it with me ona race, so I was out as far as

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getting hypes was concerned, butI did send one.
I did, however, read in thechat groups and in our socials a
lot of people using it and alot of people just really liking
it a lot, which does notsurprise me at all so it was
great to see the activity feedportion of the app.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Just the the sheer number of people you know,
within the rise and run group,just you know, supporting one
another was really, reallyfantastic.
Now, the last note that I'llmention about holler.
Hype is, as emily mentioned andfor those people that have used
it so far, is you know it doestrack your mileage and, I think,
like your, your localtemperature or something like

(16:52):
that yeah, right, I would Iwould make sure that you have
either a run keeper going astrava or your watch, because
the gps that is associated withthe app is not very accurate.
Because I did 10 miles onsaturday and when I finished I

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got a like a text or a facebookmessage from someone and it was
like, boy, you went longer thanyou, than you were supposed to
and I was like no, I didn't.
And then I looked at the hollerhype and it said I, I went 17
and a half miles and I'm like,no, I only did 10.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
So it's very runner friendly.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
It is very runner friendly, absolutely.

Speaker 9 (17:32):
Hey, you know it's there, so you did it, that's
true, you got proof, it'sdocumented, so it is proof.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
There we go.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
Well, again, this is something we're bringing to your
attention because we thinkyou're going to enjoy it.
This is not a sponsor or not anaffiliate, so we're not out
making money off of this and wejust think it's a neat thing and
we think our friends will enjoyit.
Let us see, gang, what went onearlier today, which was

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actually two days ago.
Oh yes, marathon weekendregistration, or, in the case
I'll tell you, in my case, it'sprobably my busiest week, my
busiest hour, certainly of themonth, if not of the year.
We got a lot of things going onduring registration, but man,

(18:24):
oh man, did that go fast.
How did we do?
Who got in and what did you getin for?
How did you do?

Speaker 9 (18:34):
I did.
I got in.
I got the two races I wantedI'm in for the marathon and I'm
in for the 5k but it was a verystressful morning.

Speaker 5 (18:42):
This was the easiest I ever felt.
Well, I mean.

Speaker 9 (18:45):
Well, the registration wasn't stressful,
the pre-events before it were.
So down the street from myhouse, a garbage truck hit a
telephone pole.
Oh my In the morning.
So the electric company, thephone company, the internet
companies, they were all therefixing the morning.
So the electric company, thephone company, the internet

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companies, they were all therefixing the poles and I'm like,
oh great, no, it's going tohappen at 10 o'clock, that's
when they're going to cut powerand cut the internet.
So I'm like please please,please, let me get in.
Well, they didn't cut the power, they didn't cut the internet,

(19:28):
so that was pleasant.
So it was a little morestressful than it normally would
be for me.

Speaker 5 (19:33):
You're usually like a person gets 10, five minutes or
whatever, and you didn't todayno.

Speaker 9 (19:39):
I got.
Everything was an hour.
I'm like an hour.
Then all of a sudden, like yousaid, it was an hour.
Then it dropped down to 30minutes, Like in, and I was done
.
I was done by a 10, 20.

Speaker 5 (19:51):
So oh wow, what do you use Chrome Firefox?
Which one worked for you?
I'm curious.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
Uh it's random.

Speaker 6 (20:00):
Yeah, I think it's not for him.
Yeah, I think it's different.

Speaker 9 (20:03):
No, no, no it's.
I've got it on every differentbrowser that I've tried, that's
random yeah.

Speaker 6 (20:13):
Dang, it's his internet.
I know we need to go to John'shouse for registration.

Speaker 9 (20:19):
Actually, I have fiber optic cable directly into
run Disney servers.
That's how I get in Jack.

Speaker 6 (20:26):
I knew it, I knew it All the way across Georgia, down
through Florida, all across thestates.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
He hops into his Mandalorian Directly to Disney
IT.
Yep, he registered yesterday.
Yeah, that's how it works.

Speaker 7 (20:39):
I got in for just the marathon, which is what I
wanted.
Just the marathon.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
Yeah, that's good.
So I'm excited to be back again.

Speaker 7 (20:45):
Yeah, of course it went pretty smoothly.
I I wasn't really panicked.
And then when I got off andthings went so quickly, they did
whoa, maybe I should have beenmore worried than I was wouldn't
change anything, alicia no, Iknow and I I've been in that
place before to our friends whoweren't able to get in.

(21:06):
I've been in your shoes.
Keep checking thosenotifications because it can
open again.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
Yeah, we'll talk about that in a second.
I think that's a good topic tobring up.
I got the marathon, I didn'tget the 5K.
Really.

Speaker 10 (21:23):
You didn't get the 5K.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
Nope, I didn't get the 5k.
Really, you didn't get the 5k,uh-uh, nope, oh, geez, I am now.
I now have a 5k bib.
I searched on our friend Matt'sFacebook page, team Run Diz,
and found out that St Jude'sHospital for Children still had
at the time I looked, which waslike middle of the afternoon
still had charity bibs for Idon't.

(21:46):
They had it for all the races.
I don't know if they had themfor the challenges or not.
Anyway, they had it for the 5k.

Speaker 9 (21:58):
So I will be doing the 5k for St Jude's more to
follow my friends because I'llbe begging you for money.
Yeah, you know it wasinteresting, bob.
Everything went out reallyquick, but wine and dine didn't
go out as quick as everythingdid last year, so I think we
might have gotten a false senseof security that, okay, this
didn't sell out that quick.
Maybe it's getting back towhere.

(22:19):
Maybe you could sign up for themarathon in April May.

Speaker 5 (22:23):
That's how I felt with Alicia when she was saying
like, oh yeah, I took my sweettime registering.
I did the same because themarathon usually is open for a
lot longer, at least.
Like days right Usually.

Speaker 7 (22:37):
No, not so much anymore, but it's usually one of
the last ones of the day tosell out.
Recently, right.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
Well, let's take a look.
I've got the numbers in frontof me from our friend, ryan
Teets.
Let's just look at the marathonright now.
Marathon sold out in 69 minutesthis year, 111 minutes last
year.
I'm looking in 2023.
In 2023, things went reallyfast, but I'm pretty sure they

(23:05):
were still restricting thenumber of entries in 2023.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Well, that was also the year of the massive IT issue
.
Yes, oh yeah, that's right.

Speaker 4 (23:16):
That's right, well, 23, it sold out in less time.
But let's go back.
And now we're getting intopost-COVID and I'm not sure, but
in 2020 2020 would have beenactually pre-covid guys.
2020 was pre-covid.

Speaker 7 (23:33):
That was a probably 2019 registration date yeah yeah
, the full did not sell outuntil october when I did it in
2018 for my first one.
I signed up in october, yep umsame.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
And yeah, things have changed drastically since 2019
you know, I I can't rememberwhere I saw it, but someone had
made the comment and I thinkthis makes a ton of sense is
obviously the popularity of run.
Disney has always been therebut it has exponentially grown
in the last couple of years, butyou almost kind of have to

(24:08):
credit COVID to a running boom.
Actually, this is slowly comingback to me now the fact that
the acceptance rate for thelottery for the New York City
marathon was only two to threepercent and the fact that you

(24:32):
know, with lockdowns and andbeing home and and working from
home and all that jazz, I thinkthat created a new renaissance
and running for a lot of peoplewho had never considered it
before and now they're part ofthis activity and you know
they're looking for races to doand obviously that includes the
world majors and run Disney aswell as local races as well too.

(24:55):
So a lot of this does kind oftrack it, in my opinion, and I
think also, you have to creditsocial media.

Speaker 6 (25:04):
Oh, a thousand percent, yep you know, in the
past six, seven years you lookat how many influencers there
are and how many people vlogtheir runs and how many you know
like it started with what resruns was one of the first yeah,
the first and and now?

(25:25):
um, you have so many like youcan just google.
I mean you can put in youtube,run disney, and you get 50, 60,
100 hits.
And I think that is alsoaccredited to the fomo, because
when people you know hear thingsor watch things, they're like
oh, I want to do that and itmakes it more popular.

Speaker 5 (25:47):
I remember watching uh, it was during COVID and
someone ran a marathon on theirbalcony.
That's desperation, that'spretty impressive, Cause that's
a lot of like turning backyardbackyard marathons yeah.

Speaker 8 (26:02):
Let's take a quick look at these.

Speaker 4 (26:03):
take a quick look at these numbers from our friend
Ryan.
The first thing to sell out wasthe 5K.
It sold out in 44 minutes.
I'm not going to go throughevery one of them In order.
Then the 10K and Goofy sold outalmost the same time, dopey,
then the Marathon and the lastthing to sell out was the half
hour and 20 minutes.

(26:24):
So by an hour and 20 minuteseverything was sold out.
Comparing that to previousyears, that's much faster than
last year where it ranged from70, no 53 minutes to two hours.
2024 was actually similar tothis year I was going to say 24

(26:45):
looks very similar to 26.
Similar to this year.
Uh 23, as we already mentioned,was an anomaly and then, as you
go back in time, it took them alittle longer to sell out.
Ryan, thanks for sending thatinfo.
I'm posting it on the Facebookpage.
It's interesting stuff I'mposting it on the Facebook page.

Speaker 9 (27:05):
It's interesting stuff, bob, when you couldn't
get into the marathon, was thatbecause you signed up for the 5k
?
You signed up for the marathon,then went back in for the 5k,
or when you did both, it wasgone already.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
No, 5k was gone before I got into the
registration link.
So by the time I got in there,the only thing I had available
that I wanted was the marathon.
I didn't even have an optionfor the 5k.
So yeah, but that's going towork out, we'll be okay.
Uh, charity bibs again.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
That's one way to go yep, that's the route I went.
So in theory I was.
I mean, I logged in to to helpfriends and, and thankfully I
logged in to help friends andthankfully I was able to help a
couple of friends, which alwaysmakes me feel good.
But so I wasn't reallynecessarily stressed out today,
which was nice.

(27:57):
But I'm thrilled to be runningonce again on behalf of Give
Kids the World for just the halfmarathon, give Kids the World
for just the half marathon.
So, bob, you and I, we shouldpowwow a little later on, maybe
some combined ideas that we cando to help both of our charity
bibs.
So I'm definitely excited to behelping out such a wonderful

(28:17):
organization.
And I will say this in chattingwith Give Kids the World today.
I can't speak for othercharities, but obviously I think
this is a really sought afterrace weekend because by the time
I was chatting with them middleof Tuesday afternoon, they
informed me that they werealready sold out of the full

(28:38):
goofy and dopey.
So I mean, which is wonderfulfor all of these charities that
you know, it's, you know, apositive double-edged sword in
terms of you're able to get intothe race and you're also able
to help out fabulousorganizations.
So it's a wonderful route to go, but, you know, check the the
spreadsheet that mark does forus.
Check out matt's website.

(28:59):
Yeah, um, you know, if this isa route that you feel like you
need to go and really do somegood in the world, yeah, the
other thing is to get onTelegram and again Matt's the
guy there and look for theannouncements.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
Join the Disney notifications.
I don't know exactly what it'scalled, but it's not hard to do.
If I could figure it out, itcan't be that hard.

Speaker 9 (29:33):
It's the Run Diz Alerts on Twitter or X, whatever
you want to call it.
But if you go to his webpage,team Run Diz, he has a page just
for that with all the differentones.
But he says Telegram is thebest one, with most accurate one
, I think he said yeah, that'swhy I used it.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
The other thing I will say is I actually had a
good time today.
I mean, yeah, it's stressful,alicia, maybe I should have been
more stressed than I was, butwe had a bunch of folks in the
rise and run marathon weekendchat, the community chat on
Facebook.
But I also opened a zoom linkand we had 30 or 40 people on

(30:07):
Zoom just talking to one anotherand I know a lot of folks got
helped and I know a lot of folksgot in and I'm excited for that
.
I love seeing the excitement offolks.
I say this every year there arethree exciting days when it
comes to dopey or the marathonthe day you register, especially
the first time that's reallyexciting.

(30:28):
The day you start training.

Speaker 9 (30:31):
And then the day you finish the event, and in between
it's hard it's hard, but I wastelling somebody last night I
think I get more nervous aboutregistering than actually
running the race.

Speaker 5 (30:43):
Yeah, I would say that now, after doing a few
races.

Speaker 9 (30:47):
Race day, you know, yeah, I got to do dopey, I got
to do a marathon, but that dayyou're trying, can I get in?
Oh my God, is this going tohappen?
You know it's a little morenerve wracking, I think.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
You know I'll hit race number 60 at springtime.
Surprise, this is the firsttime.
No, okay, I'm going to say thisis the first time I failed to
get something I wanted.
That's not entirely true.
There was a year where I wantedto get dopey that was three
years ago and didn't get it andended up with the marathon that

(31:28):
ended up being a blessing indisguise.
That was three years ago.
Yep, yep, what?
The heck it was yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:36):
Either time has flown or, like I keep thinking, we've
been doing the podcast for alot longer than we have.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
Well, we're coming up on four years.
Four years in October, that'swild, I for a lot longer than we
have.
Well, we're coming up on fouryears.
Four years in October.
That's wild.
I love you guys, I love you too.
Oh, calm down Wait hold on.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
Jack said I love you.
I thought she was against lovebased on the podcast the other
week.

Speaker 4 (32:01):
It's not against love .

Speaker 5 (32:02):
No love for Jack.
It reminds me of the virtualseries that Half does.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
I know I'm just teasing you.
It's fun.

Speaker 9 (32:12):
So, Bob, I have another question for you.
So for the 5K, what are wedoing, Aliens?

Speaker 4 (32:19):
Aliens.
Good question, john.

Speaker 9 (32:21):
Which Sigourney Weaver aliens.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
The Toy Story aliens.
Okay, good, Toy Story aliens.
I don't again.
I don't have a line on shirts,but there are plenty of shirts
out there.
In fact, Kauai and PizzaApparel has one.
It's a good looking shirt, yeah.

Speaker 9 (32:48):
I really want somebody to dress up as
sigourney weaver now.
That that would just befantastic.
You, you know, somebody will.
Now you know that yesabsolutely, and and I think, I
think actually our buddy, alanis actually doing the 5k this
year yes, he is, because hewants to be an alien yes, yes,
he is so sweet alan's also doingthe 5k and, of course, the full
, because he's perfect, um, butyep, he's excited about it.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
So that's what we're doing, john, we're.
We're doing the aliens insteadof the dalmatians.
This year we're the toy storyaliens.
So I think that's going to be alot of fun.
Again, I know people areexcited about it.
If you signed up for a charitybib, don't forget, john posts a

(33:36):
fundraising thread on ourFacebook page every month, so
that's available for you to use.
Of course, in any way we canhelp you out, just let us know.
There are episodes of thepodcast.
I don't have them in front ofme when we talked about
fundraising efforts.
I'll go ahead and look those upfor next week and let you I

(33:57):
think there's a I know there'sone that we dedicated the
episode to, if I'm not mistaken,I put the links to the
fundraising podcasts in the post.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Okay, the two that stick out to me is when this was
very early on, when we hadPeter Brookhart on.

Speaker 4 (34:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
And also our buddy KG from the Living, the KG Life
podcast.

Speaker 10 (34:19):
Right.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Those are our two main ones that are dedicated to
fundraising.

Speaker 4 (34:25):
Okay, well, there we go.
Hope you got what you wanted,friends.
If not, don't give up, it's notover.
You've got other avenues andit's exciting.
We hope to see you there.
All right, friends, let's visitwith our guests for the week.

Speaker 9 (34:44):
Okay, so let's welcome some guests from a
galaxy far away.
Let's welcome Mai, Marianne andTony, who you might have seen
recently cheering at theDisneyland races in California.
Welcome, guys.

Speaker 4 (34:57):
Hello, hey, thanks for joining us, thanks for
having us.

Speaker 9 (35:01):
Let's get started.
Let's tell us about yourselfsome background.
Do you run Disney?
Do you run besides cheering?
What else do you guys do?

Speaker 12 (35:11):
I'm Mary Annie.
I am currently working atDisneyland but I do run at the
run Disney sometimes.
Mostly it has been in Floridafor that one, when they had it
only in Florida and they took itaway from Disneyland side, been
in Florida for that one whenthey had it only in Florida and
they took it away fromDisneyland side.
Uh, but I've done like theMarvel ones but any of the ones
that are Disney light side onesover here I would have them

(35:31):
doing the cheering while thedark side I'll be running.

Speaker 11 (35:34):
I'm.
I'm the reason why they've donesome run Disney's, because I
happen to see it one day.
I was like that looks kind ofcool.
And so I trained and I did theDumbledare 2016.
Yeah, go big.
And then go home, saw a familymodel here and then yeah, and
then yeah, and then I starteddoing all the Disneyland runs

(35:57):
and then, um, I was like gobigger, and then I did.
I was gonna go and start doingmy uh coast to coast and I got
the Kessel that time and then umand I was going to do the
Kessel to Chateau but that was2020.
So that didn't happen and uh,yeah.
And then, uh, we did for my40th birthday.

(36:20):
We did my princess halfmarathon, gathered some friends
went to Florida did that.
It was fun and I tried to dothe.
I was like I need to do themarathon, gotta get that off my
bucket list.
So, the full marathon I triedthis morning and sadly, I failed
and I did not get it was tough,you still got a chance.

Speaker 9 (36:41):
It did go quick.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
Yeah, it went real quick.
We've got friends who may notknow what the Kessel Run was.
Would you explain that?

Speaker 11 (36:50):
It's the Star Wars light side and that's the
Disneyland's run and then theStar Wars dark side of Disney
World.
So you have to do both in orderto get the Kessel.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
Get that special medal.

Speaker 11 (37:02):
Most expensive medal so far?

Speaker 5 (37:04):
yes, I wish they still did that.
I would do it in a heartbeatand I know john would too.

Speaker 9 (37:12):
Yeah, well, when I started they the kessel run was
virtual.
Well, the first half of it wasvirtual, so you did a virtual
half and if you?
But then if you did the fall,you got that, that, the fall to
half.
In Florida you got the KesselRun Challenge medal, but not an
official coast to coast KesselRun medal.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
Yeah, so it's the Star Wars equivalent of the
coast to coast medal.

Speaker 11 (37:38):
Yes, yeah.

Speaker 10 (37:39):
Very neat and I am Tony, so I don't do any running
Other than the only sport that Ido for running is basketball.
But I don't do that anymore.
I'm tired from that, plus mybody's all surgery down and
everything like that.
So I'm just running.
Just gets me tired justthinking about it.
So I just like to go support,you know, friends, family that

(38:02):
do the runs, cause I know howextremely brutal they are.
Um, so when, when my came up andasked us to, hey, you want to
cheer on the runners and youknow, if that gives me a reason
to put on my armor and go havefun, I'm all in.
I don't care what it is, I'mall about it.
Um, as they know.
So when she asked me to come doit, I'm like, oh, absolutely,

(38:23):
what time we have to do it.
She said 5am.
I said huh, and so you know Iwas like just poking fun at that
.
But we didn't mind that at all.
It was, it was nice and easy.
You know, we suit up and standout there and take 1000 pictures
with people and hugs, highfives and all that.

Speaker 7 (38:43):
So that's how it started pictures with people and
hugs, high fives and all that.
So that's how it started.
So, tony, you're kind ofalluding to it, but why don't
you tell our friends what thename of your Legion is and what
you all do.

Speaker 12 (38:54):
So we have a costuming group called the 501st
and basically the group istrying to be as accurate as
possible with either the moviesor games or whichever, or and
then, uh, to take a next steputilizes our costume for charity
.
So, uh, yeah, pretty much.
That is the five.

Speaker 10 (39:15):
And there's about 15 to, I think, now, almost 16,000
members worldwide.
Wow yeah.
From all over every country,continent, every planet.
I mean they from all over Everycountry, continent, every
planet.

Speaker 4 (39:26):
I mean they're all over the place.
I like that, that's good.

Speaker 10 (39:30):
Yeah, so it's well-known.
It's interesting.
You know, the charity aspect ofit is why we do it.
You know it's all volunteerwork.
We don't get paid, you know.
So that's part of the 501st aswell.

Speaker 12 (39:48):
Yeah, our motto is literally the bad guys doing
good.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
Yeah, nice.

Speaker 12 (39:53):
We do also have other costuming groups as well.
So for 501st it's mostly thebad guys, if anything.
But there's also Rebel Legions,mandelmerks or even the R2
Builders right over there.
There's definitely other groupsout there.

Speaker 10 (40:08):
Yeah, they got the.
Dynasty stuff like that too.
I had no idea.
Yeah, there's a bunch of groupskind of umbrellaed under us.
The closest one is the RebelLegion.
They're basically like oursister, you know.
Club yeah sister club to us.
Cool, we do all events, they'realways included.

(40:31):
Yeah, it's just a big family.

Speaker 9 (40:33):
You can't have the good guys without the bad guys.
Right, Right.

Speaker 5 (40:38):
I mean, yeah, that's true.
In case you haven't figured itout, this is kind of uh, it's in
the world of star wars, correct?
Correct, because, I'll behonest, the first time I didn't
know you guys's names were as agroup called the 500.

Speaker 12 (40:52):
First, I just thought you guys were all
employed by disney so actuallywith the 501st, when it first
began it was just a group ofpeople that you know made
costumes and then afterwardsstarted to do the charity events
with it.

(41:12):
But at a certain point it gotso big that even George.
Lucas noticed about that.
Oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (41:20):
Please tell me you saw him.

Speaker 12 (41:24):
Well, I mean, we've done like conventions, you know.
So with that, you may see himonce in a while.
I don't know if you've heardanything like that, but
otherwise, yeah, so when GeorgeLucas, he was fine with us as a
costuming group, as long as it's, you know, for charity, not for
money, etc.
Right right.
He actually introduced the 501stin canon in terms of

(41:50):
Battlefront.
That's where they became theclone troopers phase two.
So if you see clone trooperswith like a little blue on the
top of their head over there,those are the actual 501st clone
troopers there.
So we actually got integratedinto the storyline.

Speaker 4 (42:09):
Big deal.

Speaker 12 (42:10):
As far as I know, the founding members, when they
first made him they decided it'scool to have a battalion, and
usually with them they usuallyhave some kind of odd number on
there, so they just named itFive-Wolf First.
So as far as I know, We'vetalked a little bit.

Speaker 4 (42:30):
Did it start out in California, because I'm
surprised how big it is.

Speaker 12 (42:35):
I don't think so.
I'm trying to remember where itstarted, but there's usually
documentaries out there rightnow that you can actually check
out.
I know one of the foundingmembers' name is Alvin Johnson.
I'm not sure if he's in NewMexico or something.

Speaker 10 (42:54):
I don't know off the top of our heads.
Well, I don't.
I could Google it.
Where it completely started,but he's basically the founding
father of it.

Speaker 12 (43:01):
Correct.

Speaker 10 (43:02):
Yeah, he started it and then it just snowballed and
became way bigger than what heever thought it was going to be.
And we've seen him atconventions or even at some
social gatherings and some havemet him, some have talked to him
.
I've never been able to see himor talk to him, but just
through the avenues that we knowof people and we've seen

(43:23):
through social media he seemslike a great, wonderful guy for
what he did.
Not just for this yeah, he ishis first.

Speaker 4 (43:31):
For what he's turned it into, also the philanthropy
it does also.

Speaker 12 (43:36):
I'm going to tear up every time I talk about it, but
don't mind me.
But yeah, his daughter wasactually terminal cancer over
there, so yeah, so he decided to.
You know, found it for thatkind of thing.
And then there's also her nameis Katie.
And what happened?
Was she watched?

(43:57):
What was it?
The Phantom Menace?
No, when Pad may was beingwatched over by rtd2, katie
wanted an r2 unit in order towatch over her when she was
terminally ill.
So so, her the droid, somebodymade it, it was r2kt.
Yeah so with that, one r2kt isstill around.

(44:18):
Love that, yeah.
So with that one, r2kt is stillaround the world helping out
kids, especially with terminalcancer.
Watch over them.
That's very cool.
Also, it got integrated incanon as well, so if you ever
see in, I think, Star WarsRebels, you might find R2KT.

(44:39):
It's a pink droid, pink R2.

Speaker 11 (44:42):
I think I've seen a pink R2 before.

Speaker 12 (44:44):
That's the one and then I think in a very, very
super brief scene in episodenumber 7 as well, where they
were like in the rebel base area.
You could see R2 KT floating bysomewhere.

Speaker 5 (45:00):
How do you like become part of the 501st,
because it sounds pretty epic itis sometimes a hard, arduous
journey, depending on whatcostume you're looking at.

Speaker 12 (45:12):
Oh so, with that one , the more like known characters
, the more it's like really hardto see what kind of all the
details.
But in the 501st we have whatwe call the costume reference
library, so they list out allthe approvable costumes on there
and what you need to getstarted in terms of level of

(45:37):
requirement.
Get started in terms of levelof requirement, which they do
have three levels, which isbasic, level two and some of
them are level three, dependingon there.
Um, so in my particular costume, which is a shadow stormtrooper
, it's based on a new hope.
So I have to get like everylittle thing on a new hope in

(45:58):
terms of getting it correct.
So even now we havestormtroopers that are based on
rogue, one on andor, and it'sjust little tiny differences
here and there.
So they're very, very asaccurate, as you can see, to
like the number of frowns on ahelmet.
So, like this one in particular, this one has like one, two,

(46:24):
three holes on there.
There might be a stunt versionthat has four holes on there.
Okay.
It's very particular.

Speaker 10 (46:32):
I gotcha and my character is a shadow scout
which is not really known unlessyou're deep in the lore of star
wars.
Um, he's, he's a comic bookcase, comic book based character
.
Um, he, they, they're a groupof them.
Um, they fought against, uh,luke skywalker in one of the

(46:54):
comics, I don't remember whichone it was.
Obviously they ended up losing.
Um, they became, uh, vader'skind of right hand men when it
came to certain battles.
Um, they basically take thefront line of everything, um,
and kind of, basically, the navyseals of scouts, okay, no kind
of playing in the shadows,playing in the dark, you know

(47:16):
that type of deal.
Um, and I got that characterfrom her.
Actually, um, she's the onethat got me in the legion and so
I owe her.
I owe her everything and shehears it all the time.
Um, but she, her outfit or herarmor, I had to modify for my
height.
You know, I'm six to 200 poundssmaller than me, so there was
other things that I had to getbuilt and redone for my, for me

(47:36):
till then, wear it.
And she was like hey, I'm inthis survival first.
They do charity work for kids.
She, smaller than me, so therewas other things that I had to
get built and redone for my forme to then wear it and she was
like, hey, I'm in the survivalfirst.
They do charity work for kids.
She knows I love kids and lovesyou know, trying to help out,
and you know just how I am.
So she's like you should justwear my armor one day to a
convention and see how you likeit.
The moment I put that thing onand I just turned into a
superstar.
I'm like I'm done.

(47:57):
I got to do this.

Speaker 4 (47:59):
You know what I mean and we do.
Yeah, we do know what you mean.
Yeah, we get it, we get it.
I'll get back to that in asecond, but we do, we understand
.
Do you make all of theseyourself?

Speaker 12 (48:11):
So in terms of them, there's a hit or miss of what
people would do.
A lot of people would maketheir costumes like from scratch
.
For us we have what we callarmor makers, so the folks that
has their own build and thenthey make their own, uh, to
share with the legion.
So you have to like know whoyou're from, and they usually
sell it like at cost of whatthey have built it from um.

(48:35):
So in terms of that one, eitherpeople could do now 3D printing
nowadays or, if they do,forming In terms of accuracy, it
would have been vacuum formingfor a lot of these, but the
newer characters, they're goingto have crazy details on them
nowadays, so a lot of people do3D printing.

Speaker 10 (48:57):
And all the ranges are very different, from you got
your Vader and your Boba Fetts,which are probably the most
expensive armors in the Legion,down to a reserve type, pilot or
an officer, which is probablythe lowest.
So you have all the charactersin between there and, depending
on your budget and what you wantto do, you can actually go out
and buy it as is, or you can getthem made.

(49:19):
And then we have these thingscalled armor parties where we
all meet up, drill, cut them,paint them, trim them, size them
.
I mean it's a whole thing andyou have 30 people that show up
to these things and they'rewilling to help out, because not
everybody like me.
I'm not crafty at all, I'mterrible.
So I have friends in the Legionthat do that and they do that

(49:40):
for either a side hustle or theydo it as a job, so they'll help
you out and paint stuff and cutstuff and sand it and
everything Pretty neat.

Speaker 4 (49:48):
When I was talking earlier, you said we knew what
you meant.
All of us, at one time or other, have run in costume at a
Disney event not to the levelthat you do, but we get it, we
get.
We understand the reaction thatyou get and the pleasure that
you can see on the faces ofothers.
It's a neat thing, absolutely.

Speaker 10 (50:07):
Yeah, like, my main thing is is just making sure
people are happy and I mean weall are all three of us because
otherwise we wouldn't be doingit but our, our reaction to
their reaction when they see usis the most heartwarming thing
in the world because I know fromthem to how much they run and I
just know from running ingeneral how taxing it is,
especially when you're goingthrough.

(50:28):
You know however many milesyou're doing.
You get to the halfway point,you're almost done, but then you
kind of get that little boostof motivation when you see us or
you see other band members orother characters or whoever it
may be.
Yeah, I feel like when it comesto us, we get so interactive
with everybody.
Where just this time we had afree hugs I was doing a free
hugs sign, giving a bunch ofhugs to people and she's out

(50:50):
there with her Star Wars sign.
We're just trying to bring somefun to what you guys got to go
through.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
It's good stuff.

Speaker 9 (50:57):
Yeah, going back to that through it's good stuff.
Yeah, going back to that.
So I know in the past, uh,disney used the 501st members to
supplement, I would say, therace courses for the star wars
races in both in disney land anddisney world.
Have you guys ever beenofficial?

(51:17):
I know the last couple of racesyou were unofficial Star Wars
characters.
Have you guys ever beenofficial characters?

Speaker 12 (51:24):
In terms of the first I think two or three runs
that Disney has done, they didput a cast out to anybody that
had a costume, not specificallyto the 501st, but however they
did put an announcement to the501st.
Uh, but however they did put aannouncement to the 501st like
hey, anybody interested?
Then they could just come over.

(51:45):
Uh, I think they did the samething with like the marvel run
as well.
They did get a lot of costumefolks out there as well, so
they're proud of like differentclubs as well yeah, I think that
first time we got invited tocome do that, we had over just
about 100 troopers.

Speaker 10 (52:02):
Wow, yeah, it was a huge, huge, huge turn.
And then we had one more yearafter that and then they stopped
.
I don't know why 2020.

Speaker 11 (52:12):
Oh, it was 2020.

Speaker 10 (52:13):
Okay 2020, stopped it and then we've never heard
anything after that, but she'salways doing the running Maya is
.
So we're like, hey, let's keepthe tradition going, let's try
to bring as many characters backas we can, just to have some
fun.

Speaker 11 (52:28):
Just to play off of that, when Disneyland run came
back I jokingly said to mysister Marianne, over here I
said you know we should justpicket it, just strike, say we
want Star Wars half back.
She thought that was the mostfunniest concept ever.

(52:52):
Just like out of the blue, justin the middle of the race,
we're just picketing.
It's like we're not going torun.
Know, it's like we're not gonnarun this until bring star wars
half back.
But it shockingly, a lot ofpeople love it.
So we're like let's just makethis into a tradition.
Just bring our friends.
It's not sanctioned by the501st um, it's just for fun.

(53:13):
And you know I'm like tony says, we just enjoy making people
you know happy and to cheerpeople on.
Because I've been on the otherend and every time I see a
marching band or just you know,even though in Disneyland I
remember the one sign thatalways cracks me up was this

(53:34):
church that goes take a candyfrom a stranger and they had
like Twizzlers and stuff.
Just the signs itself alwaysmakes me laugh and that just
makes the grind of that 13 milesgo.

Speaker 5 (53:47):
I remember you guys from Disneyland, I did the.
Disneyland race right when itcame back.
I do remember that and I waslike you know, I really do wish
Star Wars would come out.
I feel like Disney's hintingtowards us that it might just at
least for one weekend, becausethey had a Star Wars-themed race
this past January.

Speaker 11 (54:08):
So yeah, that was a 10K.
And I almost sent Mary Annieout there when it's like,
because her side says pleasebring Star Wars half back, and
then I said the next side, nextsession's right?

Speaker 4 (54:20):
no, not like that oh right exactly yeah no, it, it
needs to be the theme for theweekend.

Speaker 9 (54:27):
Yeah, because when we just ran the marathon last year
in Disney World, uh, thebackstretch between the, I would
say, the transportation center,uh parking lot of, uh, magic
kingdom to animal kingdom, itwas basically star wars alley.
They had, yeah, what about six,seven different character stops

(54:50):
.

Speaker 5 (54:50):
I think of uh um, yeah, and they had it where it
was like there was smoke comingfrom places and there were
shooting, sounds like a two, two, toot, toot, toot and with
lights and everything.
Honestly, it was probably myfavorite part of the course hey,
jack, I almost started into therace report.

Speaker 9 (55:10):
That's an inside joke , folks oh and yeah, but
unfortunately when I got thereit was light out, so I didn't.
I saw the lights going in thebackground, the sound smoke, but
it wasn't dark.
It must've been pretty cool Ifwe ran it in the dark.
You know what?
Who do we have?
We had?
There was Vader, there was Kylothere was Chibaka.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
Phasma, there's a couple other ones.

Speaker 9 (55:38):
Yeah, there's a couple other ones.
Yeah, there's a bunch of them,so maybe they're coming back.
We're hoping.
My big theory is it's comingback in 2027 for the 50th
anniversary and I hope it's bigand epic, but who knows?

Speaker 5 (55:54):
oh my god, if they like seriously though I feel
like one they're testing it tosee if people would actually go
for it Again.
Obviously you would.

Speaker 4 (56:01):
Oh, there's no question about that.

Speaker 5 (56:03):
And two.
My worry is they're only givingus little snippets, but not a
full weekend.
They're like this will satisfyeverybody here's a little
segment in marathon and thenhere's one race.
Give me a weekend.

Speaker 4 (56:20):
Okay, we'll have to wait and see.

Speaker 5 (56:23):
I think it'll come I always thought it was cool.
I watched, um, there's this guyon youtube who used to do the
star wars races called res runs,and um, he did one where it was
like you know how you like,towards the end of, I believe,
the half marathon.
They ended it it, I think, atESPN, and there was just a
straight shot line of you guys Imean to run through that.

(56:45):
I don't, I'm pretty sure thathas to have been you guys.
It was before COVID, it wasn't.
Was it all Disney?

Speaker 4 (56:52):
Yeah, that must've been Disney.
It was probably Disney Jack.

Speaker 12 (56:56):
Way, way far away from the parks.

Speaker 9 (57:03):
Oh way, way, far away from the parks.
Oh okay, 20 2019.
When I was there for star warsweekend, the 501st was there
helping supplement uh that'scool.
You know because they because Imean I don't think disney had
jawas and sand and uh, you knowsand people as characters.
You know because in their, intheir costume department, so
they were there.

Speaker 11 (57:20):
Unfortunately got rained out most of it, but you
know it was, they were all thereif I recall correctly, because
I did both, uh, the disneylandand disney world star wars one I
think it was near um, it wasdefinitely 501st that was there,
uh, and they were near Terror,terror.
Okay, I do remember that.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
Okay, very good.
Hey guys, you talked a bitabout charity that you do.
Can you tell us more about it?
Are there specific charitiesthat you do things for?
Is it organized at a big levelor locally?
Tell us about that.

Speaker 12 (57:58):
Sure, so in the 501st there is a request forum
basically for anybody that wantsto obtain 501st.
However, it is voluntary, sothey just put it out.
For the areas that we have,which in California alone, we
have segmented locations.
So in terms of that, we havetechnically three garrisons we

(58:20):
have the San Diego garrison, wehave the Orange County garrison,
as well as the Bay Area as well, and then we have subgroups in
them which we are called squads.
So we're the OC squads rightover here and there's an LA
squad.
So we're kind of all likebranched out everywhere.
So they usually what.

(58:41):
We have forums and it's likehey, we have somebody that's
interested in doing this.
Uh, are you guys interested inwhoever has time to make it to
each event?
In terms of the requeststhemselves, um, it really
depends on the request.
Sometimes it could be like bookfairs or classroom visits or,
uh, you know, like super sidethings like weddings or the zoo

(59:05):
or you know, star wars day zoo.

Speaker 10 (59:08):
The majority of the, the charities that we do that
are kind of tied to us, um ismake a wish, uh, red cross, blue
cross, red Cross, blue Crossand Starlight Foundation.
So we do a lot of hospitalvisits.
There's yeah, I think there'stwo or three throughout the year

(59:30):
and they're very small.
Only a couple of members can gobecause they don't want it to
be too crazy and it can beoverwhelming for some kids and
stuff like that.
So they have a select few of usthat you do it one time and
you're good to go, because theywant to get as much people as
they can to do that.
So the hospital visits areusually the, for me at least,

(59:53):
are the number one troops for me, because you know you go into
the rooms that are really reallytough.
You know kids suffering anddealing with a lot of stuff that
we have no idea about, you know, and then the moment we get to
walk in there as a costumecharacter, it just you see, you
see everything they're goingthrough just completely
disappears for a little bit oftime.

(01:00:13):
And thank God we have helmetson because there's been multiple
times.
You know you start to tear, totear up, you know and it's, but
it's.
It's the most rewarding feelingin the world.
So, with that charity aspect ofbeing able to do those hospital
visits or do the school visitsor do the you know they even
have um outside the hospitals,they'll have troops, they'll

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have like a little fair going onfor, you know, kids and stuff
like that.
So we'll do those as well.
But those are our biggest ofcharity events that we are
associated with.

Speaker 4 (01:00:45):
That's outstanding guys Very good.

Speaker 9 (01:00:48):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:00:49):
My, we've been talking a bunch.
Was there some special costumeyou were going to tell us about,
something that had to do withan SNL skit or something like
that?

Speaker 11 (01:01:00):
going to tell us about something had to do with
an snl skit or something likethat.
Yeah, I dressed up as matt thetechnician.
Uh, for both the disneyland anddisney world race.
Um, it's the skit where.
Um it?
Who was it?
basically, which is kylo ren,yeah, and he did a kind of like
the hidden boss, undercover boss, that's the show okay, and he

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was going to be a technician andyeah, and it sounded like yeah,
so he was wearing this likeconstruction outfit, like an
orange dress and this littlename tag that says Matt on it.
I had to wear wigs and I hatewearing wigs.

Speaker 4 (01:01:41):
It's hilarious.

Speaker 11 (01:01:43):
Just for this, you know, and during the Disney
World, during the Disney World Itook one of the pictures I had
on the Disneyland run and wroteall the Matt, the Technician
quotes, on it, and anytimeanybody noticed me during the
Disney World run I'll hand thatcard out.

Speaker 7 (01:02:02):
oh, my gosh, that's amazing it's good job on it.

Speaker 11 (01:02:04):
And then some matt the technician quote that's
hilarious.

Speaker 4 (01:02:09):
You know.
What's fun about this, jack, isthat I know john knows
everything that our friends aretalking about.
You and I are sitting here mostof it's going over our head,
but we're having.
We're having a great time withit anyway, and I got a feeling
our friends who listen a bunchof them are just going to eat
this up and then the rest ofthem are going to be like me and

(01:02:30):
you, jack, going.
Oh, that's cool, that's a goodstory.
So no, I know, star.

Speaker 5 (01:02:34):
Wars actually pretty well.
I just didn't know the 500 atfirst because I I watched, so
I've watched officially themandalorian.
Um, I watched that one and orI've.
I've caught up for the mostpart.
There's a lot of the animatedstuff I haven't seen though did
you know some of the 501st wasin the mandalorian some of the
parts that you see like a lot ofstormtroopers in them, the

(01:02:56):
501st.

Speaker 10 (01:02:57):
No way.
The main scene in one of thescenes in the Mandalorian, when
they got off the little boatsand you see them all coming off
the boats.
I think it was the last episode, the last, second to last
episode, where you saw themcoming off the boats ready to
fight with Moff Gideon.
All those characters coming offthe boats were 501st members.

Speaker 5 (01:03:16):
Did you get to do it?
No, not me.

Speaker 10 (01:03:18):
We're not canon, I'm not a canon character, but I'm
also not a Stormtrooper.
But we both have friends thatwere actually in that.
That was in that movie.

Speaker 9 (01:03:32):
That's really cool, that's one of the things about
the 501st their costumes arepretty much Perfect.
Spot on yeah, what do you callit?
Set or movie, accurate, so youwould not know a difference.
You're not going to go onAmazon and pick up a
Stormtrooper costume and be inthe Mandalorian.

(01:03:53):
No definitely not yeah, thesecostumes, I've seen them in
person and they are spot on.

Speaker 10 (01:04:01):
It has to be to join the Legion.
It has to be movie screenaccurate, because what you see
in the movies is what we have,and that's the great part about
it is.
You've got to be so attentionto detail with everything,
otherwise you won't get approved, because it's that secretive.

Speaker 11 (01:04:20):
Otherwise you won't get approved because it's that
secretive.
If I recall, I think when youwere trying to join, I think we
had to take detailed pictures ofthe shoulder piece and the head
piece, very detailed spots thatthey want to know that they are
as accurate as possible.
Yeah, so it is very, verydetailed, their costumes for

(01:04:44):
sure.

Speaker 9 (01:04:45):
Wow, it's impressive guys Go on their website and
look at their costuming guide.
You would be amazed of thedetail that they go down to for
being costume accurate.
What's the website, John?
Is it the 501storg?
I think it is right, or is itcom?

Speaker 12 (01:05:04):
com.
I think com.
Yeah, I heard that they couldjust Google 501st.
That's probably true yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:05:11):
Either one works.
And yeah, like you said, youwon't see what we have at a
Target or on Amazon or atWalmart for Halloween.
You know nothing like that.

Speaker 9 (01:05:21):
It's it's stuff that we get from prop makers and even
going to disneyland and buyingone of those helmets there.

Speaker 10 (01:05:27):
That's not even close right no, no, not at all
there.
There was actually one of ourmembers when his sons were
smaller.
They actually remember the theywere probably about three feet
tall the storm troopers, thelittle kid toys, but they were
about three or four feet tall.
One of the members actuallyhauled, hollowed out all of the

(01:05:48):
pieces and made armor for hiskids to join us at events.
So that was like the closestthing to target band.
You'll see as a as a Legionmember, but that was pretty
creative for him to do that sohis sons can join us.

Speaker 4 (01:06:01):
That is neat.

Speaker 12 (01:06:03):
Also to mention with the 501st there is an age limit
of 18 and over, but we do havea subgroup.
It's called the GalacticAcademy and that's for the
younglings, if they want to joinwith costumes.
So they still can join, ifanything.

Speaker 4 (01:06:19):
How appropriate?

Speaker 9 (01:06:21):
That's too cute.
Again we started.
You guys cheer.
I guess first of all you guyswant the disney race, the star
wars races, back.
We all do so, hopefully.

Speaker 11 (01:06:30):
Run disney, you hear us out there, bring them back
we will cheer so hard and wewill have a big, big group it.
It would be great.
Invite the 501st back.

Speaker 9 (01:06:44):
We will come in masses and when you guys cheered
the disneyland races.
Is there a specific spot thatyou guys cheer or you guys pick
and choose?

Speaker 11 (01:06:54):
as as a runner.
As a runner, I was reallystrategic about this.
I look at the map, I try tofind which place it is, how to
get there, because they do youknow, block, they do oh, yeah,
right yeah, and I know what partI was if I was running it.
I know where I'm going to beexhausted.

(01:07:16):
Usually is right in the middle.
So I aim for six mile six orseven, just for just so you know
you get that boost back on thebefore you go on back.
Yeah, so, because I think milenine they usually have something
, so I try to get them aroundmile six or seven.

Speaker 4 (01:07:37):
What's up next, guys?

Speaker 11 (01:07:38):
Anything on the horizon yeah, we'll be there for
harrowing.

Speaker 12 (01:07:42):
We'll be having our signs, pretty much the same as
usual, yeah bringing free hugsto all yeah, we're also
convinced with the dogs, if it.

Speaker 11 (01:07:50):
Yeah, you forgot the star wars part, because I
noticed I had my dogs with meand and he had his dog and there
was a point where everybody'sready to give him a hug and they
saw the dogs and they runstraight past them and went to
pet the dogs oh yeah our dogsare dressed up in costumes and
stuff that's my, my youngest, onthe first year

(01:08:13):
yeah just so you know, he waslike the only under 18 year old
that was allowed by Disney torun, so yeah, so he has
experience in costuming andcheering.
You know, the whole goal withthat one was to for him to grow

(01:08:34):
up and cheer, and I think he didit for three years before they
stopped and people kept coming.
I recognize you, you're tallerthan before they stopped and
people kept coming and going.
I recognize you, you're tallerthan before, you know, and
whatnot.
That was kind of fun.
So that's why we try to keepthis tradition going by cheering
the Disneyland half with oursigns and whatnot.
So far I have seen, especiallyon a lot of the running the

(01:08:57):
Facebook running forums, theywould say like hey, I recognize
you guys from last time and Imade sure to get pictures with
you guys every single time.
So I was like now it's ourresponsibility to keep on
keeping on at this point.

Speaker 4 (01:09:14):
Got it, got it Outstanding.

Speaker 9 (01:09:17):
I'm glad to see you here, glad to talk Star Wars.
I'll talk Star Wars anytime.
You guys know that I have weirdtrivia stuff that I probably
pull off.
These guys are like, yeah,we're proud of Johnny.

Speaker 4 (01:09:31):
He kept it under an hour.
That's pretty good.

Speaker 9 (01:09:34):
I just got one question for you guys.
It's a.
What did Ali call them?
Like rapid fire?

Speaker 4 (01:09:42):
Yeah, here's my.

Speaker 9 (01:09:46):
It might be even a hot take Rise of the Resistance
or Smuggler's Run which one'sbetter?
Rise.

Speaker 4 (01:09:53):
That was easy, John.
That was pretty easy.

Speaker 10 (01:09:56):
I don't know the reason why they're keeping that
ride and letting go ofSmuggler's Run.

Speaker 9 (01:10:04):
I was a Smuggler's Run guy.

Speaker 10 (01:10:06):
There's no wrong answer but yeah, we love the
ride.

Speaker 4 (01:10:10):
Clearly there was.

Speaker 9 (01:10:11):
as far as you're concerned, Well, for me, putting
the Falcon into hyperspacebrought me back to a
seven-year-old kid, so you know,that's true.

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
I mean, we're on the dark side, you know we're on the
other side, that's why trust me?

Speaker 9 (01:10:29):
I know I trust me.

Speaker 10 (01:10:31):
I like the dark side too the best thing about that
ride is just being able to justlet the joystick go straight
into the ground and just keepbouncing all the way through the
ride.
You know, yeah.
Yeah, you're right, oh yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:10:40):
That's that's right.
Sorry, engineers.

Speaker 9 (01:10:43):
Yeah, yeah.
So, guys, thanks again forjoining us.
Hopefully we'll see you inFlorida when, when, the, when
the or California, when the runDisney Star Wars races.
Come back and be cheering youguys on, you guys cheering us on
.

Speaker 10 (01:10:58):
Yeah, absolutely.
It would be a pleasure, andthank you again for having us
and being able to shed somelight on what we do and what
we're about, because that meansa lot to us.
So thank you, guys for wantingto do that, and we appreciate
that.

Speaker 11 (01:11:11):
And do say hi to us when Halloween comes by.
We do enjoy seeing everybodyand giving them high fives and
hugs.

Speaker 4 (01:11:20):
Look, friends, like I said, I believe, as we were
talking with our friends fromthe 501st I know a lot of you
out there, just ate that up,just we're all over it
understood everything our 501stfriends talked about, like john
he did, and then I know thereare a lot of you like me who a

(01:11:44):
bunch of it went over my head,but I still enjoyed talking with
them and I think it'll be funto see them, uh, out at
Disneyland or maybe even atDisney World one of these days.
So thanks for joining us 501st.
That was great.
Oh, let's see Upcoming episodesnext week, as we alluded to

(01:12:07):
earlier, we begin.
Ba da da da, bum ba da da.
We begin the March Madness thisyear.
Last year it was Walt DisneyWorld Attractions, this year it
is Walt Disney World Sit DownRestaurants.

Speaker 9 (01:12:27):
And Greg's going to be our own Dick Vitale next week
.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
It's awesome, baby Johnny says.
I like that guy.

Speaker 4 (01:12:34):
It's a tipsy dude.
Don't go.
I like that guy.
I mean, he's bigger than life.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
Jersey boy, come on, you know it, listen.
You survived cancer, was itfour times now?
Several times.
Yeah, I mean Several times.

Speaker 4 (01:12:47):
yeah, he lives down in this area.
He does yeah, I don't have himover to lunch or anything, but
he lives.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
If you have him over to lunch, you better call me,
because I'd be down there in theheartbeat, but I think he's a
good guy.

Speaker 4 (01:13:00):
Anyway, that should be fun.
That starts next week.
Hope you enjoy it.
Now it's time for the RaceReport.
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Tom's eight-week New Yearchallenge is wrapping up so
we'll have him back on thepodcast here soon to tell us all
about how that went and maybelet us know if he's got plans
for something else in the future.

(01:14:05):
Here, friends, let's go back aweek and for our race report
spotlight let's revisit thetokyo marathon.
I know it was a week ago, butunderstand it's tough with the
time zone changes and peoplewith traveling plans and all
that.
It's tough to get everybodytogether the Tuesday after the
race.
So for this one we put it off aweek and we're excited to have

(01:14:29):
Danielle, hi, sarah, helloCarrie, hey there, and still in
Japan where it's morning time.
She just got up from breakfast.
Lori, morning, yeah, see, shedid that on purpose.
Well, ladies, thank you, we'reglad that you're here.
This is exciting.
The Tokyo Marathon, in terms ofthe big six, is the one that I

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think folks have the toughesttime getting to or getting into,
and I'm going to ask a question.
I'll go around the room on thisone.
I make the assumption that ifyou're doing Tokyo, you have
plans to do all six.
Am I correct?
Yeah, everybody's shaking theirhead.
No negative responses there.

(01:15:17):
Okay, was this number six foranyone?
Nope, a lot of negativeresponses there.
Okay, was this number six foranyone?
No, a lot of negative responseson that one.
Five for carrie.
How about you, danny?
This is five, for me five sarahnumber five five laurie uh
number four oh, laurie, um wellthat begs me again in the fall

(01:15:40):
bob okay.
Well, that begs the questionwhat's next, lori?
What's left?

Speaker 8 (01:15:43):
I mean lori, I'll start with you uh, so I'm doing
um new york in the fall, andthen somehow I'm gonna have to
find a way to get into bostonyeah, that's, that's the other.

Speaker 4 (01:15:54):
Yeah, that's the other.
Tough one, sarah.
What's's left?

Speaker 14 (01:15:59):
So I'm doing Sydney in August, and then I've got
Boston.

Speaker 4 (01:16:05):
Boston.
Yeah, sydney outstanding.
We got to hear about that.

Speaker 9 (01:16:08):
But Sydney is not.
Is that still considered?

Speaker 3 (01:16:11):
It's a world major.

Speaker 9 (01:16:13):
Yeah, but there's no star for that yet, right yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:16:16):
You get the star for Sydney, but it's not part of
the six star program.

Speaker 4 (01:16:21):
Okay, there's no recognition for it being part of
a program yet until there's twoother world majors which should
be added in the future yeah,and I don't think they wanted to
mess with anybody who was, youknow, so close to finishing and
had put all this time, money andeffort into it.
Danielle, what's?

Speaker 13 (01:16:41):
left.
I am doing Boston in April forstar number six and I am also
going to Sydney this summer toget star number seven.

Speaker 4 (01:16:50):
Wow, wow, that's great, carrie.
How about you?
Boston?
Yeah, well, I think Tokyo maybe the toughest to get to,
boston's probably the toughestto get in, and I know the
fundraising requirements forcharity are major, not
insignificant for that one, butthat's awesome.

(01:17:10):
Well, let's talk about this one.
Let's start with travel.
When did you get there?
How long did you stay?
Lori?
I already told everybody youwere still there, so let me
start back over with Carrie.
When did you get there?
How long did you stay, carrie?

Speaker 3 (01:17:28):
I got there Wednesday night pretty late and then came
back Wednesday afternoon.

Speaker 4 (01:17:35):
Okay, so about a week Nice.

Speaker 13 (01:17:38):
Danielle Ikyo um on the 26th of february, which was
a wednesday in the afternoon,and I flew home thursday march
6th okay, good, how about it,sarah?

Speaker 14 (01:17:51):
I was uh, came in monday night, uh before the race
and then stayed till wednesday,so 10 days that's nice.

Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
Y'all made a good trip out and, laurie, we you've
told us you're leaving tomorrow.
How long have you been there?

Speaker 8 (01:18:06):
uh, we got in on monday before the race, so total
uh, 17 nights here oh wow,that's fantastic.

Speaker 4 (01:18:14):
What a wonderful trip .
I'm glad y'all were able tomake more of it.
I know my buddy, adam, went toSouth Africa.
I think he was there overnightand did a marathon.
I think he was two nights, tobe honest, but that was a
different story.
No, he actually did an ultra,is what it was.
Those ultra folks are crazy.

Speaker 9 (01:18:33):
We are like 14-hour difference, I think between 13,
depending on time change, butduring the marathon it was a
14-hour change.
What did you guys do to getready for that time change?
Because, as we could say rightnow, lori just woke up in Japan,
as if we were recording atseven o'clock PM on a Tuesday
night.

Speaker 3 (01:18:52):
For me.
I literally just hit the groundrunning and stayed up.
My body wanted to stay up andthen the next night I tried to
go to bed, like at theirnighttime, at a reasonable time,
but then I was up like at 1 amevery day.
Yeah, yeah.
I never.
I didn't really feel fatigued,but I just wasn't sleeping on a

(01:19:16):
regular schedule.
And I am still not sleeping ona regular schedule.

Speaker 13 (01:19:20):
Same Carrie.
I've been home for five daysand I am still waking up at odd
hours.
I didn't sleep a night straightthrough in Japan, the flight
from Tokyo to Toronto, because Ilaid over in Toronto.
I slept about six hours on theflight and that was the longest
stretch I had slept in like 10days.
And even since coming home,that was the longest stretch I
had slept in like 10 days.
And even since coming home,that was the longest stretch I

(01:19:43):
had slept was that flight.
So it's going to take a whileto get back on Eastern Standard
Time or Eastern Daylight.

Speaker 4 (01:19:50):
Time.
Yeah, it's Daylight Time too.
Threw that in.
Yeah, I got home.

Speaker 13 (01:19:54):
Two days later the clocks changed.

Speaker 4 (01:19:56):
So I have no idea what time it is you exchange so
I made it in an hour.

Speaker 14 (01:20:03):
You still, you still messed up.
Sarah, are you doing okay?
I'm doing okay.
I used this um, really lovelyuh app for jet lag that I found
uh in one of the tokyo groupsthat I was part of and I think
that helped a lot, particularlygoing there.
It was like you knowinstructions to wear like
sunglasses at weird times of theday.

(01:20:24):
I think you know that thathelped, Like I found going there
easier than coming back.
Oh really.
Yeah, just you know, that wasjust my experience, but yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:20:37):
It's been many years for me, but I used to find it
just the opposite.
But and there is light therapyyou can do.
I think that's what you'retalking about, Sarah.
Yeah, All right.
Well, let's talk about.
Let's talk about the race.
Let's start with the expo.
I imagine pretty neat expoLaurie.
Anything special about the expo?

Speaker 8 (01:20:57):
The expo was really good for me.
After experiencing Berlin andthe chaos, I found the Expo was
relatively smooth.
I was in and out around a halfan hour Now, the thing that I
did do because the ASICS part ofthe Expo, where you got your
merchandise, was insane.

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People were lined up and butahead of time I ordered my
merchandise directly from theASIC store and I just went into
the store and picked it up.
So that was really helpful.
But other than that, you know,pretty typical Expo.

Speaker 4 (01:21:37):
Anything noteworthy Carrie, Danny, Sarah, anything
noteworthy about the Expo.

Speaker 13 (01:21:43):
The Expo was okay.
I got there first thing,thursday morning.
I waited in the line.
We went to the ASICS March 1stbecause we knew that was going
to get crazy and I was one ofthe lucky ones to be able to
snag a jacket at the Expo.
I didn't order in time on theASIC site to either have it

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stored in Japan or sent to myhotel and that was honestly the
craziest part was that sectionLike there was just a mad dash
for the jackets and I somehowgot right in front and people
were like shoving from everyangle and at one point I ducked
down to see the second shelf andno one was letting me up.
I'm like y'all are gonna have tolet me up.
You cannot keep me pinned tothe ground.
And I finally was able to getthe jacket in my size because

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they were flying off the shelvesand they were in real time
behind the curtains like openingboxes and putting them on
hangers and putting them outlike five or six at a time and
just you see hands coming fromevery direction just snatching,
and I managed to get the one ortwo I needed and I'm yelling at
the guy like part the Red Sea,let's go, let's go and I, like,

(01:22:47):
pushed my way out, but that was.
That was the most hectic part,but otherwise, lori's right, it
was a pretty normal expo.
Dead pickup took a while, itwas fairly.
It was actually very organized.
Um, I thought it was organizedat least.
And then that down in the oneof the lower levels of the
building, just good amount ofvendors, typical expo and I'll
just piggyback on danielle.

Speaker 3 (01:23:09):
I was pinned in the jacket chaos wow after waiting
an hour to get into the asICstore and it was maddening how
uncontrollable it was, Like itwas a-.
Were you there Thursday?

Speaker 13 (01:23:22):
morning too, carrie.
Huh, were you there Thursdaymorning too, carrie.

Speaker 11 (01:23:26):
Yeah, yeah, we were probably pinned in the same
group because I was there.

Speaker 13 (01:23:29):
I got in line at like 9 am, got in right at 10
and walked right in and got inright forward and I was just
pinned.

Speaker 3 (01:23:36):
It was horrific, like I was panicking, it was like so
bad and I, the workers, aretrying to tell people to move
back and half the crowd doesn'tspeak english and no one's
listening to them, and just theway they had it set up, like the
system was just terrible.
Like instead of having thejackets all hung up ready to go,
they like danielle was sayingthey were just passing them

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under a curtain and it was likewhat are you doing?

Speaker 13 (01:23:59):
I think that by the time we got in there, there were
I think there were jackets onthe shelf and they just flew
right off.
They were restocked.
Thank gosh, they wererestocking in real time, but
they were only putting out likefive or six at a time, but it'd
be like it'd be like all two xlsor all extra smalls or like
three large.
So it was just you never knewwhat color, what size was coming

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out at once, but being pinnedup against.
Yeah, carrie, I'm agreeing, itwas one of the.

Speaker 4 (01:24:26):
That was terrifying you know what they need.
They need a good virtual queue.
That's what they need yeah, itmade.

Speaker 13 (01:24:32):
It made run disney expo like that merch.
It made that merch area looklike a cakewalk.
Wow, like nothing.
A Run Disney Expo could ever beas chaotic or bad as being
pinned in Tokyo.

Speaker 4 (01:24:44):
Wow, that's really saying something.

Speaker 13 (01:24:46):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:24:50):
Same experience, Sarah.
No, I avoided day one of theExpo.
I pre-ordered my merch, havingheard about some of the chaos,
and it was actually ratherpleasant.

Speaker 4 (01:25:00):
So I feel bad.
There's the key.

Speaker 13 (01:25:05):
I like having the story, but the rest of the expo
was great after that.

Speaker 4 (01:25:09):
Well, let's talk about the race.
Tell us about where you stayed,how you got to the start and
how that all worked, and thenwe'll talk about the event
itself.
Kick us off, sarah.
Yeah, so I stayed at the startand how that all worked, and
then we'll talk about the eventitself.
Kick us off, sarah.

Speaker 14 (01:25:18):
Yeah, so I stayed at the start area, which is
Shinjuku area, which was, youknow, fairly it made it fairly
easy that morning to get to therace.
Lots and lots and lots ofrunners in Shinjuku actually

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like probably every 10th personit seemed like on the streets
were runners, which was kind ofcool because I had heard that
was one of the things aboutTokyo is that it didn't have
sort of that same vibe ofrunners, sort of like
infiltrating a city for a worldmajor.
But I found, like Shinjuku,there were runners everywhere.
So it was kind of cool that way.

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But yeah, and, and you know,getting to the, the start area,
I mean I think that's a wholeother conversation that
everybody probably had somedifferent experiences, but
there's a lot of differentlayers in Tokyo and I actually
had to go underground to get tomy gate for the start area,

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which was kind of interesting,and fortunately they had
volunteers out in the start areaa couple days before the race
that were able to sort of likeshow people around and all the
different crowds and stuff.
So that I found been reallyhelpful.
But yeah, uh, yeah, no,shinjuku was, uh was certainly a
, a, a, a cool spot, to stay forsure, for the Carrie, how'd you

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do?

Speaker 3 (01:26:46):
Um.
I was closer to the finish areaand thankfully met a friend in
the hotel um leading up to therace and she walked over over.
We walked to another hotel andmet somebody else that she knew
and then we walked together.
Otherwise I think I would havebeen on a blind mission going to
the train so you could.

Speaker 4 (01:27:06):
Oh, to the train.
Okay, I was going to ask if youcould still walk to the start,
but you had to take a train tothe start, okay yeah, but it was
pretty.

Speaker 3 (01:27:13):
It wasn't very crowded, which was good, because
I was expecting it to be likechaos and it wasn't that bad.

Speaker 4 (01:27:18):
So Lori, are you still in the same hotel or did
you move?

Speaker 8 (01:27:23):
Oh no, no, we've moved quite a bit.
Yeah, we moved around toHiroshima and Osaka and Kyoto,
so we've moved a bit.
It sounds like I stayed veryclose to Sarah and we probably
went into the same gate becauseI also had the underground gate
three.
But there was volunteers andRick and I did a walk through

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them the day before, so I knewwhere I was going and it was
quite easy to find your way.

Speaker 4 (01:27:52):
Danielle, once you got to the start, I assume they
had different start times fordifferent groups.

Speaker 13 (01:27:58):
They did, and they had different entry points based
on your corral and your wave.
So I also was part of theunderground crew because I was
in Corral K Corral K, gate 3,because each corral had a couple
, like one or two entry pointsand like two or three different
gates.
So I was also part of the veryfun underground crew.

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But I had heard, leading up toit like I was confused, leading
up, like what am I going to do?
What am I going to do?
And the advice I heard was itsounds confusing until you get
there and signage is so clearthat you're not going to mess up
.
And that was 100 true.
I got there the morning of andthere was just volunteer after
volunteer with signs and arrowsand crowds of people and it was

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fairly easy to get to the start.
I didn't.
I think I was near the finishline.
I was near Tokyo proper, Ithink.
So I know I had to take a trainquite a ways to get to the
start.
I think I was the finish.
My friend and I stayed at theConrad near the Shia Dome area.
It was a good location from thefinish.

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We weren't too far on thesubway after that, very easy to
get around.
Once we were there with justthe amount of signage and
volunteers helping.

Speaker 4 (01:29:14):
Nice.
Once you got used to it, it'sgood.
Any big language barriers.

Speaker 3 (01:29:18):
I mean it's hit or miss Playing a lot of charades.

Speaker 4 (01:29:23):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:29:24):
In Google Translate.
But there I would say race day,it wasn't as bad.
There seems to be more Englishspeaking versus other times of
being out and about.

Speaker 4 (01:29:35):
Well, let's talk about the race itself, the Tokyo
Marathon.
Y'all got to the start.
That's great.
I'm glad I know you did,because I know y'all finished.
How did it go?
How was the course, how was theweather and what were the
crowds like?
Just what were your memories ofrunning this marathon, lori?
Kick us off.

Speaker 8 (01:29:55):
So weather-wise it was probably low 70s, but it
felt much, much warmer and I'mthinking maybe it was because
there were so many buildings andconcrete and it was creating an
effect, but wow, it felt awfulwarm.
I had some issues with leg painthat morning so I was taking it

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pretty easy because I was notgoing to risk not finishing this
race after going all this way.
The course was fine.
You know, it was through thecities and there were cultural
type events happening on theside, which was nice Drummers
and there were some cheerleadersand, um, the biggest memory for

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me were the crowd.
The people were fantastic, waymore low-key than any of the
other majors, but man, theyreally feel like they were
rooting for you in a more, amore silent way, I guess, and
the volunteers, like they weresmiling ear to ear the whole

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time.
It was just a really lovelyrace.

Speaker 4 (01:31:04):
Sarah, how about you?
What were some of thehighlights?

Speaker 14 (01:31:07):
I would agree that the crowds I was surprised.
I wasn't expecting as much interms of crowds and it was lots,
lots of people.
People like there weren'treally any.
I think that's the thing.
There's a lot of out and backson that course, so it's easy to
have people on those out andbacks.

(01:31:27):
It's like, you know, two forone almost, but yeah, and it was
great.
I think one of the unique thingstoo for Tokyo was, like there's
a on the course itself.
I found there was a certainamount of camaraderie with the
international runners.
That wasn't something that Inoted in other majors, like sort
of everybody sort of knew a lotof us had traveled, you know,

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13 hours potentially and getlike and stuff.
So, and you know, this racemeant a lot because we all
worked hard to get there.
So that was neat as well.
And certainly the weather was,I would say, probably the
biggest thing for me as far asjust you know not, and I think

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probably lots of people can havelots of things to say about
this, but just as far as theheat, that was a bit unusual for
that race was a bit unexpected.
So but yeah, no, it was lovelyto be out running the streets of
Tokyo, that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:32:33):
That's great, all right.
Now it gets tough.
Now, danielle and Carrie.
It gets tough because youknow're trying to think well,
what can I say that laurie andsarah didn't?
And it's gonna be really toughfor you, carrie, because I'm
gonna ask danielle next so, um,I heard after that it was a
record high for the tokyomarathon oh wow it did.

Speaker 13 (01:32:54):
Laurie was right.
It got to about 70 somethingdegrees.
It felt a lot warmer with, um,no shade cover, um the heat
definitely impacted the race, umthe course itself.
I really enjoy.
I enjoy the actually running onthe physical road itself,
because it was I found it to be.

(01:33:15):
Even I've run through new york,I've run through other cities
and there's potholes, there'sgrooves in the ground.
The, the worst, worst part ofthe tokyo courts was like the
last half mile and it wascobblestone like running down
the final the last half mile,last half mile, it was

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cobblestone, and then you made asharp left to the end.
Um, you know, the crowds weregreat.
Um, I was expecting it to becompletely silent from
everything I had heard, andwhile it was quieter than other
world majors, it was also louderthan I expected it would be.
There was great entertainment.
There was great course support.
The out and backs were a littlebit of a mind mess, though,
with like.
You could be at the 15k markand starting course support.
The out and backs were a littlebit of a mind mess, though,

(01:33:58):
with like.
You could be at the 15k markand starting to feel the race.
And you see everyone, 30 and 31yeah back.
I think the course had three orfour different, I think it was
at least three differentdistinct out and backs, so you
were just seeing people acrossthe way and then of course I
would believe, around, I wouldsee I would had a people across
the way and then of course Iwould.
I would, I would had a goodenough distance in front of me.

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But I would see the back of thecourse, like I saw the sweepers
, I saw like people likedropping, and so that was, that
was crazy.
But it's a race that I ampersonally glad is over.
Um, great experience.
Um, I'm sure we can talk aboutlow lights and we can talk about
this later, but I don't know ifany of y'all were part of the

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four hour back crew where theyran out of water.
On course they ran out of cups,they ran out of water, it was.
It was a struggle if you wereslower than four hours that's
not good more on that.
I want carrie to have a chanceto talk highly good for you, I
do like we all have greatmemories of the race and, yeah,

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not even the worst part, buttokyo was one for the books it
was.
It was really really coolgetting to run through a lot of
culture like a lot of likereally cool buildings and the
crowds and the cultural eventsall right, car.

Speaker 4 (01:35:17):
No pressure, come up with something unique.

Speaker 3 (01:35:19):
No, go ahead, whatever you want to say it
started out in the corrals.
You know, to Lori's point, liketons of support, met a lot of
international individuals.
I met a couple of older womenthat were in their late 70s, one
that had been running for like30 something years and never

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heard of the majors before mypeople.

Speaker 4 (01:35:42):
Very good she was from Ireland.

Speaker 3 (01:35:45):
she was very cute, and lots of Sydney people as
well, Very scenic, you know, toeverybody's point and the
cheering it was quiet comparedto other majors so that was
interesting and them cheering islike this.
I know you can't see me golfclap golf clap yeah, and it's
just like they're very excitedand it's very interesting to

(01:36:08):
observe.
Um, one of the other highlightswas the I don't know if you
guys paid attention to the Mario, all the Mario and one Luigi
that were towards the cheersections.
That was a really motivatingsection right there, and some of
the dancers and thecheerleaders as well.

Speaker 4 (01:36:28):
Of course, being flat was flat for the most part,
with the exception of a fewinclines, but nothing more than
that of a few, you know,inclines, but nothing more than
that, aside from the water, andthat's a big deal, the water, at
any event, especially a worldmajor to run out any other low
lights.
You can go first, carrie.
You don't have to have one,though just the heat yeah, I

(01:36:52):
take it, it was sunnyuncontrollable, but yeah yeah,
was it.
Was it a sunny day?
Yeah, it makes a big differenceif that sun's beaming down on
you it started in the 30s, likemid-30s so, and it got hot fast
really wow.
Humidity must have been downfor the temps to go up that fast
usually mid 30s, meaningcelsius no, no no, no, mid-30s

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celsius.

Speaker 13 (01:37:18):
They probably would have canceled the race yeah, no,
I'm thinking that's 30 to 70 isa big swing, yeah it is yeah I
was cold in the corral and thenat some point, probably after I
crossed the halfway mark, Idefinitely noticed within like a
20 to 30 minute period, thetemperature just spiked like 10,
like 10 degree spike in like a20 to 30 minute period.
The temperature just spikedlike 10, like 10 degree spike in

(01:37:40):
like a 20 minute period, and itwas.
It was rough.

Speaker 3 (01:37:46):
And, with the lack of water, you felt dehydrated,
even though you were trying tostay on top of it.

Speaker 13 (01:37:52):
And that's probably my low light was I.
I've gotten a good routine downwhen it comes to hydration and
fueling and because of thehydration issues it totally
messed up my fueling.
I ended up.
It was the most dehydrated andnauseous I had ever felt.

Speaker 4 (01:38:09):
Yeah, that's rough.
It will make you nauseated.
It will yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:38:12):
And it was, you know , selfishly, super frustrating
for me because I held on to a PRpace for 17 miles.
I held on to a sub five hourfor the first 13.
And then I held on to a PR forthe next five and then lost it
at a water stop that ran out ofwater and then the sun blasted.
I couldn't time my salt pads.

(01:38:33):
I couldn't time my fuelingright salt tabs I couldn't time.
I hate my fueling right becauseof.
And so tokyo did this thingwhere they had a ton of sport,
um, water like sport, drinktables and water tables, but
they tried to organize it by thelast number of your current,
last number of your bib.
I think a lot of people missedthat because everyone would was

(01:38:55):
crowding all these tables.
So the first like tables forbib number, like last like bib,
with the last digits of likezero to four, okay, yeah so you
had to go to like seven I gotyou.
Then we're like, yeah, that wasfun.
So that way the low light wasthe lack of hydration and it
messing up the fueling.
But you know what you win some,you lose some.

(01:39:16):
It's the learning experience.
But at the end of the day I'mit's a race that I'm so glad
that I went and did I'm sure youdid I think, in fairness to
tokyo too, this was a recordhigh it was, and they should
have.

Speaker 8 (01:39:29):
They should have gotten it right because, uh,
this was the only race that I'dseen about five people being
carried off in stretchers.
Personally, that's just what Isaw, um, but again it's another
star yeah, I'm sure you're allvery proud.

Speaker 4 (01:39:51):
We're proud of you because you spent time and
because it's a major culturaldifference from what we're used
to here in the US and Canada.
What were a couple of thehighlights of your trip outside
of the race, Sarah?
Why don't you start?

Speaker 14 (01:40:08):
Oh, I tacked on Kyoto after the race was over
and that was by far thehighlight was over and uh, that
was by far the highlight.
Like Kyoto, if, if you'rerunning this race, you have the
opportunity to make your way toKyoto, it really is like another
world.
I um, it was, I mean justcompletely, um, you know, it was

(01:40:31):
magical, almost like as far asthe culture and the history and
all of that.
So I would um say that know, ifI was going back, I would spend
more time in Kyoto and lesstime in Tokyo.
Okay.
Yeah that was part of thehighlight.

Speaker 4 (01:40:47):
Carrie, I'm not going to you last this time.
How about you?
What were some of yourhighlights of your trip overall?

Speaker 3 (01:40:53):
The museums.
Beforehand, one of the Team labimmersion uh, borderless
museums, that was really cool.
Um, some shopping and thenafter, lexi actually helped me
plan my trip and I went todisney.
So ah, disneyland the weatherwas horrible, but I persevered

(01:41:14):
and made the best of it.

Speaker 4 (01:41:16):
I would too.
I think we all would.
Yeah, good Danielle.

Speaker 13 (01:41:23):
We were busy going to go to Osaka and Kyoto and
stuff like that, but we realizedwe were trying to tack on too
much and I actually got sickupon arriving in.
Tokyo.
I had a really wicked head andchest cold the entire time we
were in Japan so, and mybirthday was two days before the

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Tokyo marathon.
So, we actually did Disneybefore, so I can do Disney for
my birthday.
But I was sick, so we decided,after our time in Tokyo proper,
we went back and did Disneylandfor two more days.
Okay.
So we can get a better feel forit.
But yeah, the weather wasterrible.
So from the record high of themarathon, where it was 70
degrees, it was like 40 degreesthe rest of the week and on

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Monday and Tuesday I saw snow.

Speaker 4 (01:42:12):
Oh, wow.

Speaker 13 (01:42:13):
It was quite an extreme, my goodness, yeah,
that's wild yeah.
I know Shanghai is in therunning to become a world major
in the next couple of years.
So if that happens I'll end upgoing back to Asia.
So we said at that time we'll goback to Japan and do Kyoto,
osaka, maybe go up to Sapporoand see some more of those sites

(01:42:34):
.
But Disneyland was really fun,um, and then we got to do I went
to um, I forgot what temple Iwent to, but it was really cool.
But we also went to the skybridge and tokyo tower and the
view from the city up high wasreally, really, really nice,
nice, lori.

Speaker 4 (01:42:54):
I left you for last because you're still there.
You can tell us about what youdid yesterday, if you want.
No, no, no.
Tell us some of the highlights,lori.

Speaker 8 (01:43:03):
One of the highlights that was a surprise to me is we
went to Hiroshima to the PeacePark.
So that was very sobering,looking at the history and
thinking about what's going onin the world.
So I really enjoyed that.
And then the next day we wentto an island just off of
Hiroshima and did some hiking,which was fun.

(01:43:25):
This week we went to Nara andthere they have these wild deer
that they like, these specialcrackers, and they'll bow to you
if you bow to them.

Speaker 4 (01:43:36):
Well, that was really fun.

Speaker 8 (01:43:39):
Wow you, if you bow to them.
That was really fun.
We're getting a little templedand shrined out right now, but I
mean there's so many things todo and see here, and we also did
Disney at the beginning of ourtrip.

Speaker 4 (01:43:51):
Wouldn't want to leave that out, and I wouldn't
either.
That's good, ladies.
Thank you.
It sounds like a wonderful tripand a great race.
I'm I'm glad you all did it.
I'm glad you all finished.
Good luck on knocking out therest of thing.
Uh, you'll keep us informed.
I know you will, but I'm gonna.
I think we're gonna let you gofor now.
Thanks again for joining usthank you, thank you okay, let's

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get back to this week now andwe'll start on Saturday.
Let's start over in London atBattersea Park, the Battersea
Half Marathon, the site of theSwifty Run.
Just a few weeks ago Ourfriends Amy and Rob did this one

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.
Rob actually paced Amy Multiplelaps of the park, for this
meant it was pretty flatthroughout.
That was nice.
This is Amy's fastest half inabout five years.
Good job with the pacing, rob,and good job with the run, amy.
Warmest day of the year so farover in the London area.

(01:44:58):
At 11 miles Amy said to herselfnever again.
But she knows that's not true.
Good job, folks.
Up in Binghamton, new York,steve ran the St Patrick's Day
four-Miler and left us thisreport.

(01:45:18):
Hey, gang.

Speaker 1 (01:45:18):
This is Steve from Binghamton, New York.
Problem with the race reportfor the St Patrick's Day 4-Miler
here in brisk, cold, Binghamton, New York.
It's the annual tradition4-Miler around town, Beautiful
day other than about 23 degrees,Very brisk, very windy, but a

(01:45:41):
great turnout.
The race had the Guinness stopabout halfway through and at the
end.
You know, as Lizzie would sayregarding the bird in hand race,
do it for the chicken, we dothis one for the corned beef
sandwiches and the Guinness atthe end, and there were plenty
of it, but good time.
Had a chance to try out theHoll, and there were plenty of
it, but good time.
Had a chance to try out theHoller Hype app.
Throughout the race A couplehollers came through at just key

(01:46:03):
moments.
Really appreciated the hype.
So keep that up and happyrunning.

Speaker 4 (01:46:09):
Everybody.
Sounds like it was pretty coldthere, steve, but Guinness and
Rubens at the end, so what theheck Sounds good At the Lovers
Key State Park in Fort MyersBeach, florida.
Rob did the Turtle Trot 5Ktrail race.
Ran with Ash the Bear andBeckham Thor, dog of Thunder,

(01:46:34):
who dragged him to asub-29-minute finish.
Not bad Beautiful course alongsandy trails, gravel paths and a
stretch on the beach with theGulf waters all around.
We talked about holler hypeearlier.
Rob said he sent a bunch ofholler hypes out.
That's cool.
Bunch of holler hypes out,that's cool.

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Tara and Carlos ran a halfmarathon in Milwaukee, wisconsin
indoor.

Speaker 2 (01:47:03):
This takes the cake for the most interesting race of
the weekend, I feel like thePettit Indoor Half Marathon, the
hottest race in the coolestplace.

Speaker 4 (01:47:15):
They call it 48 laps around the indoor track of the
Pettit National Ice Center.
Now that's a big track.
That's more than your standardaround the football field
quarter mile track, because thatwould have been 52 plus laps
for a half marathon.
This one was 48.

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Temperature stays a constant 55.
The course elevation neverchanges and you get to see your
lap time each time around, soit's pretty convenient to adjust
your pace.
It worked for Tara and Carlosbecause they both PR'd

(01:47:58):
Congratulations.
They actually, at the samelocation, ran a marathon the
next day.
None of our friends did it, butthere was one there.
That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:48:10):
I mean that takes a lot of mental fortitude.
I remember during the height ofCOVID, when my local Y reopened
, I remember I had to do like 15miles and it was like super,
super cold outside so I knewthere was no way I could pull it
off.
And I remember doing doingthose 15 on the indoor track and

(01:48:32):
ours was 16 laps per mile.
And like I, just like you knowyou're losing count and it's you
know, the same thing over and,over and over again.

Speaker 4 (01:48:42):
It just it really wears on you and you're always
turning yeah, yeah.
And a lot of those indoortracks are like that 12, 15, 16
laps to a mile.
But this one was like threepoint something laps to a mile.
Oh, not to a mile.
Yeah, yeah, three pointsomething laps to a mile, not to
a mile.
Yeah, three point somethinglaps to a mile.
It was less than four, so Idon't know Sounds okay, this

(01:49:05):
sounds like a race that Joewould do.

Speaker 9 (01:49:08):
What does the indoor half?
Yeah, running around in circles.

Speaker 4 (01:49:13):
Yeah, like the numerous times around Hourglass
Lake, hourglass Lake.
There's an icon there.
Yeah, there should numeroustimes around Hourglass Lake,
hourglass Lake.
There's an icon there.
Yeah, there should be a statue.

Speaker 2 (01:49:23):
You should get one of those.
You know how they have thosesigns of like the monumental
things that happened in thatyear In the decades?
Yeah, I think there should be adecade sign there.
2001 Joe Graham ran dopey.
There should be.

Speaker 4 (01:49:35):
There should be.
I agree with you, that'd beneat.
Let's go to arizona, to lakehavasu, the havasu half marathon
.
Sarah, with this race, became afive-year legacy runner.
At this event had some snafus,logistics wise the bibs got
delayed, the bibs got delayed.
The bibs got delayed because ofa snowstorm in New Mexico, but

(01:50:00):
once everything got worked outand the bibs got delivered,
slash picked up, the race waskind of fun.
It ended by the beach, so Sarahgot to do her annual wade into
the water.
It was too cold and windy toreally go all the way in, but
she did get her legs and hipschilled, which felt a lot better

(01:50:23):
after a run.
For her legacy status, sarahearned a commemorative
sweatshirt, which probably feltgood after that dip in the cold
water.
In St Petersburg, florida, atFort DeSoto, a park that had
just recently reopened followingthe damage from Hurricane

(01:50:48):
Milton, the Florida ShamrockDistance Classic.
There was a 5, a 10, 5k, 10kand half marathon.
My friends Richard and Kristadid the 5K.
Richard finished age groupthird place.
Krista finished costume firstplace.

(01:51:09):
Good for her for her StPatrick's Day costume win 10K.
I did the 10K.
Great day for a run, almostperfect as far as I'm concerned.
Temps high 50s.
Winds were calm, flat course.
A lot of out and backs.

(01:51:30):
Got to see people over and over.
I'm going to call this one anage group PR and an age group
third place finish for me, oneof the things I like to do as I
get older.
I challenged myself to run myage in the 10K.

(01:51:51):
Prior to the surgeries I had itwas not hard at all.
When I was 64, 65, 66, I wasstill running 10Ks under an hour
.
Now at 71, that 71 minutes istough.
I missed it by 18 seconds.

Speaker 2 (01:52:11):
That's okay, though Next time.

Speaker 4 (01:52:13):
That's okay.
It was a good run.
I was able to actually runnegative splits the entire race.
I think miles four and five orthree and four were exactly the
same time, but everything elsethe miles were subsequently
faster, finished strong, had agood time.
Let's see, jeff and Trina werethere and they ran the half.

(01:52:37):
Now, this was kind of.
Trina knows one of the thingsabout these races.
They're put on by a group in StPetersburg.
I think they're terrific, wehave a lot of fun with them, but
they almost never start on time.
Well, this one started exactlyon time and as I'm running out
for my 10K, I see Trina walkingback towards the start line,

(01:53:00):
because the 10K and a halfstarted at the same time.
She got tied up in parking andshe got there late.
I said to her hey, come join me, we're only.
I was only like 200 yards intoit, but she knew she couldn't do
that because if you don't crossthe first timing mat you're not
going to get a time.
So she went back and did itright, as did Jeff.
Trina started out a little fast.

(01:53:22):
I understand why.
She wanted to catch up with theback of the pack, which she did
.
Jeff kind of struggled with it.
Trina had a good race, good,solid race.
I think she ended up finishingunder three hours, does?

Speaker 7 (01:53:36):
that sound right, alicia?
Yeah, yeah, she's been workingreally hard to get under three
hours, so she got that and shealso got a six-minute PR.

Speaker 4 (01:53:45):
Jeff, it wasn't his day, His words, not my day.
Dead last start, dead lastfinish.
The finish part's the importantpart of that, jeff.
Good job, the way the courseran.
I saw Trina probably I don'tknow, four or five times on the
course and now not to beobnoxious because she was
running twice, as far as I wasOkay.

(01:54:06):
As I drove out I saw her again.
I didn't beep the horn or waveor anything.
She had probably about a mileand a half to go when I saw her
the last time.
But that's a good event, a lotof fun, enjoyed it.
Congratulations for the PRs andnice job.

(01:54:29):
Let's go to Nashville.
The 5K for Alyssa.
This is a commemorative run fora young lady who was killed
last October.
I think it was.
Amy was there.
Special race day so manyreasons Beautiful weather, sun
was shining.
She had co-workers turnedfriends at the race, an

(01:54:51):
afternoon of laughter.
But first and most important, arun for Alyssa.
Amazing race, proud of what shedid on such a gorgeous day.
Kylie was also there.
Kylie ran a PR, commented aboutthe metal which was actually a

(01:55:12):
functional whistle and also thecause for which they ran Out in
Los Angeles.
Kristen did the Griffith ParkTrail Marathon In Montgomery,
alabama, the Montgomery HalfMarathon.
Abby was there, lots of fun,lots of great energy.

(01:55:34):
Good day in Montgomery also forrunning.
Lots of fun, lots of greatenergy.
Good day in Montgomery also forrunning Abby's second half in a
week and lasts for a littlewhile as she and her husband
will be trying IVF next month.
So no running for a little bit,but good luck Abby.
Jody was there.
Commented also on the nicerunning temperatures, made good

(01:55:56):
times as they crossed the finishline, had a great time and
can't wait to bring others withher when this one comes around
again.
Another event in Nashville theNashville St Paddy's Half
Marathon.
Avery was there Starting tempsin Nashville, avery says, feels

(01:56:23):
like a 14 with 25 mile an hour.
Wind gusts Yikes, but theypushed through.
Despite some hills and theweather.
Avery got a 21 minute PR inthis half.
That's awesome.
In Indianapolis, indiana, theyhave a six mile run.
It's in the 500 Festival MilerSeries and the way that works is
.
The famous event in Indy is theIndy Mini Marathon that

(01:56:49):
coincides with or comes close tothe Indy 500.
But before they have that, theyhave a series.
They have a three-mile run, asix-mile run and a a 10 mile run
, great for training up to thehalf marathon distance.
Tiffany ran the six miler, thistime Brisk at the start, but
the sun came out and made forperfect weather at the finish.
Tiffany doesn't mention a PR.

(01:57:11):
Maybe she's done a six mile runbefore.
I don't think I have, butthat's an unusual distance.
Claremont, florida, over byDisney World, the Spring to Life
10K.
Kayla was there A little chillyat the start but it did warm up
soon enough.
Kayla dressed in layersappropriately, of course kept

(01:57:31):
her in tune with her thoughtsand she took a nice quiet run
through the state park andknocked out a five minute PR on
this 10k.
Up in Gainesville, florida, theFlorida Track Club, archer
Braid Trail.
5k and 10k.
Debbie did the 10k.

(01:57:52):
A little bit hilly it gets alittle hilly in that part of
Florida, not mountains, just alittle hilly Out and back on a
rails to trails path.
Those are nice to run on Treesand wildflowers along the trail,
good weather.
Running a race while listeningto Rise and Run, debbie says,

(01:58:12):
apparently does make you atleast 5% faster, because she ran
a PR today.

Speaker 2 (01:58:20):
We just had one of those the other week.
Right, Someone got a PR.
Was it listening to the podcastor wearing?
No, it was wearing the visor, Ithink, right.

Speaker 4 (01:58:28):
Yeah, I think it was the headband actually.

Speaker 2 (01:58:32):
I could be wrong.
If you start combining a bunchof things, you've got to be
careful.
Start combining them.
I could be wrong, all right.
So if you start combining a,bunch of things.

Speaker 4 (01:58:37):
You got to be careful .
You got to be careful.

Speaker 2 (01:58:38):
Greg Start combining them.

Speaker 4 (01:58:40):
Yeah, I think you've got to be careful combining them
.
Oh, okay, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:58:42):
I figured a shirt, a junk band, a visor, while
listening to the podcast, I meanat least several minutes.

Speaker 9 (01:58:49):
You're going to fly.

Speaker 4 (01:59:02):
You might actually hit the speed of light.
They go back in time.
I don't uh.
Well, in fact, debbie mentionsuh that the next time she's
going to wear her rise and runshirt for the extra speed bonus,
I did warn her to be careful.
I don't want her getting hurtfrom going too fast.
In addition to her pr, she'susing this as a run Disney proof
of time.
Good run, debbie.
Glad I am If it works, it works.
I'm glad you.
Glad you got that extra speedand knocked out that PR.

(01:59:24):
Let's go to Blakely, georgia.
The Tortoise Trot 5K at KolamakiMounds State Park.
Kimberly was there.
Small race, small race with abig name, lots of fun.
Mentally curs.
Small race with a big name,lots of fun.
Mentally cursing the racedirector a bit.
I'm out around mile 2.5.
Apparently a long hill climbthere, but first time to place

(01:59:51):
in a race, third overall femalefor Kimberly, second in the 30
to 39 age group.
So if my math is right, thatmeans the first place winner
must have been also in the 30 to39 age group.
No, it could have been secondand third.
Anyway, it was a tough agegroup, is what I'm saying.

(02:00:12):
Good job, kimberly.
Robbie's down in Miami runningon runways.
Be careful, watch out for theairplanes buddy.
This is the MIA Runway 5K MiamiExecutive Airport in Miami,
florida.
First of three at variousairports.
They finish at MiamiInternational in October.

(02:00:32):
I remember Robbie's done thisbefore I remember some of the
reports.
I remember Robbie's done thisbefore I remember some of the
reports.
Run takes place on a runwaywhile the air field is active,
so there are planes taking offand landing on runways around
them.

Speaker 2 (02:00:50):
That's kind of exciting.
I'd have to imagine, though,that there might not be many
Southwest planes, because I havea feeling based on today's news
about no more free bags.
Maybe not as many Southwestplanes will be in the sky.

Speaker 4 (02:01:01):
Well, I don't know, maybe not, maybe not.
Yeah, I smell what you'recooking there, greg.
Actually, thinking about it,practically executive airports
typically, typically a lot ofcorporate jets, that kind of
thing.

Speaker 2 (02:01:17):
Yes, correct.

Speaker 4 (02:01:18):
And Robbie when he wrote down that the runway, the
race, took place on an activerunway.
No, it took place on a runway.
That's real.
No, it didn't take place on theactive.
You were near the active runway.
That's the one the airplaneswere landing on.

Speaker 9 (02:01:34):
You get that little blowback if the plane goes over
you.

Speaker 2 (02:01:39):
Maybe they had a challenge, wasn't it in one of
the Mission Impossible movies,like Tom Cruise jumped onto a
plane as it was about to takeoff.
Maybe there's a MissionImpossible challenge with this
race, who knows?

Speaker 4 (02:01:50):
Maybe there is.
It says there are a lot ofairport races and they are done
on runways.
There's one at Tampa.
I think it coincides with aDisney weekend.
I'm not sure I know.
There's some reason I'm notdoing it.
But, Robbie, good job, man,we're teasing you a little bit,
but good job, Keep it up.

(02:02:11):
In Ovita, Florida, I think I'mpronouncing that right, there's
a Shamrock and Run 5K.
Emma was there.
I know I'm pronouncing Emmaright.
She's been on a long runningbreak since Wine and Dine.
She did the Castaway 5K inJanuary on her honeymoon.
Maybe that explains the longrunning break.
Recent wedding, recent weddingshe always runs this one with

(02:02:44):
her father to kick off their StPatrick's Day celebrations.
We're not running much morethan three times since a half
marathon in November Finishedthis one, this 5K, with one of
her fastest times in a while.
Good for you, Emma.
Sandy Spring, Georgia hosted theChattahoochee Road Race 10K.
Dorothy was there.
Great weather, rolling hills,not really too bad for the

(02:03:06):
Atlanta area had a group offriends cheering her on at the
finish line.
They captured in photo her pureshock and elation.
At her finish time she knockedoff over six minutes from her

(02:03:40):
previous 10K age group PR andhad her fastest 10K race since
Thanksgiving 2019, just threeminutes away from her all-time
PR, Sherry was there.
Sherry made a comment that shewas there and running the 5K.
Staying in Georgia, this time inRome.
The Barry 10K.
Brooke ran it, took it easy forthe first three miles and told
herself that if she felt good atthe halfway point which that
was it that she'd pick up thepace.
She did.

(02:04:02):
Finished strong, Real happywith the effort.
Good job Out in California.
San Diego Mermaid Series 10K.
Jennifer Sunny day in San Diego.
I think they're all sunny daysin San Diego, I think.
Now to get ready for the hotchocolate 15K on Sunday.

(02:04:22):
So we'll hear from Jenniferagain in just a moment.
Wrapping up Saturday in SanAntonio the time to patty 10K.
Abigail set a new PR, Knocking15 minutes off of her previous
PR time and earning a run Disneyproof of time.

(02:04:43):
Also an age group second placefor Abigail.
Moving to Sunday Not a whole lotof races on Sunday.
I'm surprised there weren't anyat all because the daylight
saving time change meant thatwhatever race time you had was
an hour earlier.
But there were a couple.

(02:05:03):
There was a decent one in NewOrleans, decent-sized one in New
Orleans, the Shamrock and Run.
New Orleans.
We had four friends there.
Mandy did the 10K.
Mandy says they ran along LakePontchartrain.
It was cloudy and windy.
It was an out and back withbeer and bling.

(02:05:24):
She got a nice photo of thewhole crew that was there.
We had four Rise and Runfriends there Mandy, Emily,
Ashley and Mira.
Emily did the half.
She only signed up for it twoweeks prior to the race.
Nevertheless, she knocked threeminutes off of her old half

(02:05:45):
marathon PR with a 151.30 finish.
Emily that's awesome, girl, Wayto go.
Went at a steady pace for thefirst 10 and then kicked it into
high gear.
Last mile was the fastest in ahalf marathon.
That's impressive.
Would absolutely sign up for itagain.

(02:06:06):
And, as I mentioned, Ashley andMira were also there.
Think Ashley and Mira did the10K Not positive.
Oh, the Patty 10K at thebeautiful Tennessee River Park
in Chattanooga.
Amanda was there, Was windy butgood running temps.
Oh and, by the way, Amanda nowhas a two new 10K PR, An

(02:06:34):
improvement of more than aminute from last week's 10K.
Houston, Texas the women'squarter marathon.
Amanda ran this one, a flatrace.
Wasn't too crowded, super windy.
She was smiling throughout therace, enjoying the sunrise, had
a good race, didn't hit her Agoal, but did hit her B goal.

(02:06:56):
Finished in less than one houreight minutes for this quarter
marathon, which is just a bitover a 10K.
So that's a good pace, Amanda,nicely done.
And finishing up in San Diegoit's Jennifer.
Again, Jennifer said she waslooking forward to the Hot
Chocolate 15K.
Well, here it is.
Ran it very hilly course, didway better than she ever could

(02:07:20):
have hoped and finished strong.
Good job, jennifer.
Good job to all of our friendsin the race report this week.
That wraps it up for episode181.
All right, my and if you run,you know you are our friends.
It is a Zoom weekend.

(02:07:41):
The information is on theFacebook page.
We really, really hope to seeyou there.
We can talk springtime surprise.
We can talk marathon weekendregistration.
We can talk about whateveryou'd like to.
We just want you to join us andhave fun.
Keep up the training.

(02:08:01):
Springtime surprise will behere before you know it.
Until we meet again, happyrunning.

Speaker 2 (02:08:17):
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